| 单词 | contemptible |
| 释义 | contemptible adjective uk/kənˈtemp.tə.bəl/us/kənˈtemp.tə.bəl/deservingcontempt: 可鄙的；卑劣的；为人所不齿的Herbehaviourwas contemptible.她行为卑劣。 Opposites estimableformal respectable Serious and unpleasant
contemptible| American Dictionarycontemptible adjective us/kənˈtem·tə·bəl/deservingblame: Hisbehaviorwas contemptible. Examplesofcontemptiblecontemptible They lived in the woods all the time, with acontemptibleappearance, their whole life in the woods. From theCambridge English Corpus Thatcontemptibleand repugnant "message" is what should be challenged and opposed, not the right to express it. From theCambridge English Corpus He did this in the hope that in this ugly and abject form, the book would seemcontemptiblein his eyes and his longing to read it would subside. From theCambridge English Corpus Will even this not show the country thecontemptibleand miserable expedients to which we are reduced at the present moment? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I consider their attitude mean, mercenary, shabby and, would almost use the word,contemptible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 What a mean, miserable andcontemptiblesubterfuge it is after all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am thinking of the miserable,contemptiblesavings on school milk, for example, and the raising of the prices of school meals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think in this prticular case the kind of boycotting employed was of the mostcontemptiblecharacter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The judge clearly agreed that nothing could be morecontemptiblethan to use school children as part of an election campaign. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Her absence from his funeral was acontemptibledereliction of duty and a sad commentary on her sense of priorities and decency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Let them speak so that thecontemptiblepoverty of their thinking can be confounded, unmasked and revealed to everyone. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English Contemptible, discreditable processes have been used to justify this aggression. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English The underworld,contemptibleas it is, is profiting from the loopholes created by this system without anyone standing in its way. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English It is the mean,contemptiblejustification that there are more applicants for the training colleges than there are places. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If the description was accurate, it was an ignoble andcontemptiblebusiness, whatever the propaganda was. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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