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单词 contemptible
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contemptible

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcontemptiblecon‧temp‧ti‧ble /kənˈtemptəbəl/ adjective literary  BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSnot deserving any respect at all SYN despicable They were portrayed as contemptible cowards.Examples from the CorpuscontemptibleThe union's tactics were contemptible.He is very sober too, and bears a good moral character; and he is laughable, but not contemptible.And the whole affair will be one more contemptible insult to a people on whose lands we are uninvited guests.I think he is a contemptible mean child.By the 1880s it had come to mean a contemptible person.These men came home to households where they were not only strangers, but contemptible strangers.Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.You are a worthless and contemptible woman.
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