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