英:[kənˌtemptə'bɪlətɪ]
美:[kənˌtemptə'bɪlətɪ]
英:[kənˌtemptə'bɪlətɪ]
美:[kənˌtemptə'bɪlətɪ]
词根:contemptible
adj.contemptible 可鄙的;卑劣的;可轻视的
adv.contemptibly 卑鄙地;下贱地
Middle English, "unworthy, despicable," borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, "despicable, worthless," borrowed from Latin contemptibilis (Medieval Latin also, "contemptuous"), from contemptus, past participle of contemnere "to look down on, show no respect for, despise" + -ibilis -ible — more at contemn
The first known use of contemptible was in the 14th century
contemptuousadjective
feeling or showing hate or deep disapproval
contemptibleadjective
deserving contempt
a contemptible lie
contemptibleadjective
deserving contempt
a contemptible lie
contemptibleadjective
deserving contempt
a contemptible lie
1 This intensity of emotion gives them an elevation and a heroic interest that outlasts contemptibility or pathos.
2 "Is this service to the devil or hell or a valley of lowly contemptibility?" he asked.
3 Generally speaking, yellow is to some extent derogatory that carries the connotations of cowardice, jealousy, suspicion and contemptibility.
一般来说,黄色是在一定程度上带有贬义。有怯懦,嫉妒,猜疑和卑鄙的内涵。
4 It was Henry Fowler who awoke me to a sense of my own contemptibility.
5 He was, therefore, certainly what the world calls a great man, though he had great faults, and many littlenesses and contemptibilities.
6 More contemptible than pitiful, his only concern when his wife gets murdered is covering his tracks.
7 That she should have had but one issue of her body and that he should have had to be that particular mixture of all the contemptibilities, "bar none," is too odious to swallow.
8 The film cannot afford to depict Kelly in all her contemptibility, because a villain of Roger Ailes’ caliber requires an equal and opposite hero.
9 DeSantis hasn’t yet paid the price for his contemptible behavior.
10 As banjo-plucking Mister, the louse of a husband who acquires Celie for the price of a cow and a couple of eggs and then treats her like a workhorse to be beaten at will, Colman Domingo is suitably contemptible.
11 I lived in a panic, lest I should be suspected of shamming contemptibility.
12 I've never met a more selfish, contemptible person.
13 The administration’s omnibus rule is a contemptible abuse of executive power.
14 Now, for the first time, he began to adjust himself in the place of others, and the adjusting produced torment from the realization of their miseries, and worse torment from realization of his own contemptibility.
15 As notable as the president’s more contemptible qualities, but less discussed, is the fact that, among the public, some are apparently just now taking notice.
16 The old ballad, "I wish I were where Helen lies," is silly, to contemptibility.
17 I think a whipping would suit better your contemptibility.
18 In its way it was a tragedy - the grimmest of all - for its dominant note was the contemptibility of human nature.
19 As for ourselves, I can send you nothing but contemptibilities.
20 Of all which wide welter of extinct contemptibilities, then and there so important, here and now become minus quantities, we again notice the existence, but can undertake no study or specification whatever.