Definition of Contemptible

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Definition of Contemptible
	Contemptible Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. Related Definitions: Abject, Contempt, Contemptuous, Deserving, Despicable, Despised, Disdain, Insolent, Mean, Neglected, Of, Or, Scorn, Scorned, Scornful, Vile, Worthy

Contemptible Quotations

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes

Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Contemptible Translations

contemptible in Latin is contemptus

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