英：[kən'temptəblɪ]
美：[kən'temptəblɪ]
contemptibly如何读
contemptibly是什么意思
- adv.卑鄙地；下贱地
contemptibly词根
词根：contemptible
adj.contemptible 可鄙的；卑劣的；可轻视的
n.contemptibility 可鄙；卑鄙；下贱
contemptibly英英释义
- adv.in a contemptible manner
contemptibly词源英文解释
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
contemptibly儿童词典英英释义
contemptuousadjective
feeling or showing hate or deep disapproval
contemptibleadjective
deserving contempt
a contemptible lie
contemptibly 例句
1 The administration’s omnibus rule is a contemptible abuse of executive power.
2 Whether people found Freud’s realist portraiture contemptibly conservative or reassuringly so depended, of course, on their taste and politics.
3 At this Ondikik groaned—whether at the contemptibly obvious character of the idea, or at ideas in general, or in consequence of pain, we cannot tell.
4 Ebenezer Scrooge has lived a contemptible life, but his selfishness hides that reality from him.
5 This petty craving after chiselled or painted immortality is nowhere more contemptibly exhibited than in Raphael's famous Loggie at the Vatican, where, over each separate window, one reads in staring type, "Leo X., Pontifex Maximus."
6 When Jack told me that you were still free, I hated myself, my joy, my renewal of hope, seemed so contemptibly little in contrast with his great despair.
7 Untold numbers of soldiers died in agony Trump is contemptibly ignorant of all this.
8 DeSantis hasn’t yet paid the price for his contemptible behavior.
9 When Higson came to the gate it looked so contemptibly easy that he determined to climb it with his bundles on his back.
10 I have been contemptibly weak at the very moment when I most needed to be strong; but have no further fear; you have effectually cured me of my weakness.
11 I ought not to have spoken in so contemptibly mean a way.
12 Once more, to cavil at this would be contemptibly easy.
13 In comparison with the priesthood of Egypt, Buddha is contemptibly modern.
14 Judged by the assertions of newspaper correspondents, women are at one and the same time preposterously masculine, contemptibly feminine, ridiculously intellectual, repulsively athletic, and revoltingly frivolous.
15 Everybody’s a control freak, everybody yells at everybody else and they all behave contemptibly while expressing contempt for people and culture not Romany.
16 I've never met a more selfish, contemptible person.
17 Changed to some contemptibly small process on which success depends.
18 He had heard young ladies spoken of rather contemptibly as "pedants" and "blue-stockings."
19 "I know what it is," Dicky said, contemptibly.
20 He did not tell himself that, because the view grew misty before his eyes, he was taking the blow contemptibly; he told himself only that he was very wretched, and that she was gone.