| 单词 | contemptible |
| 释义 | con·tempt·ible 1. < the Christianity which these emperors aimed at suppressing was … philosophically contemptible, politically subversive, and morally abominable — Matthew Arnold > 2. < with that property he will never be a contemptible man — Jane Austen > 3. obsolete < 'tis very possible he'll scorn it, for the man … hath a contemptible spirit — Shakespeare > Synonyms: < a curse may, like rags and dirt, be supposed to benefit a man by making him appear vile and contemptible — J.G.Frazer > < the one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection — Oscar Wilde > despicable, a more scornful term, may indicate utter worthlessness or suggest bitterness and indignation < all things are sold … the smallest and most despicable — P.B.Shelley > < even excellent science could and did often make despicable morality — Christian Gauss > pitiable applies to that which inspires mixed contempt and pity < the resorting to epithets … is a pitiable display of intellectual impotence — M.R.Cohen > < that pitiable husk of a man … a shadow of his former insolence and splendor — E.V.Lucas > sorry is close to pitiable and suggests inadequacy, wretchedness, or sordidness < I am a sorry physician and do but aggravate a disorder which I am seeking to cure — Benjamin Jowett > < one bids the poor pretender take his sorry self, a trouble and disgrace, from out the sacred presence — Robert Browning > scurvy implies the mean and vile inspiring disgust and contempt < the scurvy mutilation of a portrait by a noble lord who had sat for it and then did not like it — C.E.Montague > < since some villain robbed his mates of their pork, we'll put it out of his power to play that scurvy trick again — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > cheap and beggarly imply the petty, mean, and paltry < any cheap and facile gibes about the duplicity and dissimulation of that church — T.S.Eliot > < the South in 1800 was a land of contrasts, of opulence and squalor … fine mansions, beggarly taverns — Van Wyck Brooks > cheap may also indicate meretricious availability < the wide insatiable mouth, painted as red as a wound, and the flaunting bare knees … cheap, that was the trouble — Ellen Glasgow > shabby connotes the tawdry, worn-out, or ignoble < a shabby electric sign that had said Cedar Hill before it lost its globes — Dashiell Hammett > < the old story, ever shabby, ever pitiful, of a man for whom intrigue was a substitute for creativeness — Max Lerner > |
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