contemptible

/kəntˈɛmptəbə‍l/

/kənˈtɛmptəbəɫ/

[adjective]

contemptible

[ADJECTIVE]

worthy of being looked down upon or despised because it is bad or wrong

antonyms : estimable

Examples

1. Your ignorance of your own people is contemptible.

2. When the voters of Wisconsin to its side rather than resorting to tactics, that really are contemptible.

3. What Demosthenes was trying to preserve was kliene Städte, the world of small independent states, a contemptible term in the eyes of Droysen and his fellow nationalists.

4. We would think that that was morally contemptible.