Synonym: atrocious, awful, brutal, cruel, dreadful, horrible, mean, ruthless, terrible, vile, wicked, wretched. Similar words: contempt, contemptuous, self-contempt, contemptuously, contemplate, contemporary, contemplation, incontrovertible. Meaning: [-təbl] 
adj. deserving of contempt or scorn.
adj. deserving of contempt or scorn. 
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1 It was contemptible of him to speak like that about a respectable teacher!
2 They were portrayed as contemptible cowards.
3 His personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.
4 It was a contemptible trick to tell lies and play on an old friend!
5 Her behaviour was contemptible.
6 It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
7 I think he is a contemptible mean child.
8 The union's tactics were contemptible.
9 That jibe about Alison was mean and contemptible.
10 You are a worthless and contemptible woman.
11 We find contemptible the political machinations of Mssers.
12 Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
13 And the whole affair will be one more contemptible insult to a people on whose lands we are uninvited guests.
14 Catherine was ready to explode. "I think you're contemptible!".
15 Babbitt is far from being a contemptible figure.
16 By saying that the LORD's table is contemptible.
17 His cowardice in face of the enemy was contemptible.
18 Its color and design are marvelous; its drawing contemptible.
19 He is ever contemptible and uninterruptedly ridiculous.
20 She curried favor with the leader by contemptible means.
21 The most contemptible of the personages in the play is the courtly fop Osric.
22 They don't consider washing dishes to be contemptible and sorehead.
23 To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
24 The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler 
25 He is very sober too, and bears a good moral character; and he is laughable,(www.Sentencedict.com) but not contemptible.
26 These men came home to households where they were not only strangers, but contemptible strangers.
27 The first is purely despicable and the second is simply contemptible.
28 By the 1880s it had come to mean a contemptible person.
29 When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
30 It gives us great pain and makes us appear contemptible in our own eyes to the last degree.
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