adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The union's tactics were contemptible .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the whole affair will be one more contemptible insult to a people on whose lands we are uninvited guests.
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By the 1880s it had come to mean a contemptible person.
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He is very sober too, and bears a good moral character; and he is laughable, but not contemptible .
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I think he is a contemptible mean child.
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Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
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These men came home to households where they were not only strangers, but contemptible strangers.
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You are a worthless and contemptible woman.