Definition of Contemptible
Contemptible
Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
Despised; scorned; neglected; abject.
Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
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Contemptible Quotations
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
Contemptible Translations
contemptible in Latin is contemptus
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