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# contemptible

«contemptible» in Mova's school dictionary: **So mean or bad that people despise it and deserve scorn** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (more contemptible, most contemptible)

### meaning for a pupil

So mean or bad that people despise it and deserve scorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a cruel or mean act that the good hero cannot respect: the thief's trick was contemptible.

### examples

- It was a contemptible trick to cheat at the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#x1)
- He told a lie and felt contemptible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#x2)
- Stealing from a friend is contemptible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease, a thing ready for them whose foot slippeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.287/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contemptible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.