contemptibleness

  • 41churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …

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  • 42meanness — n 1. baseness, lowness, ignobility, ig nobleness; dishonorableness, disreputability, disreputableness, disgracefulness; shabbiness, unfairness, injustice; contemptibility, contemptibleness, despicableness, scurviness, vileness, abjectness;… …

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  • 43paltriness — n 1. pettiness, triviality, trivialism, Brit. pottiness, inconsiderableness, unappreciableness, inconsequentiality, insignificance, unimportance, irrelevance, irrelevancy, nonessentiality; littleness, smallness, minuteness, slightness,… …

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  • 44contemptible — /kənˈtɛmptəbəl / (say kuhn temptuhbuhl) adjective deserving of or held in contempt; despicable. –contemptibility /kəntɛmptəˈbɪləti/ (say kuhntemptuh biluhtee), contemptibleness, noun –contemptibly, adverb …

  • 45contemptible — [kən temp′tə bəl] adj. [ME < L contemptibilis] 1. deserving of contempt or scorn; worthless; despicable 2. Obs. contemptuous contemptibility n. contemptibleness contemptibly adv …

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  • 46con|tempt|i|bil|i|ty — «kuhn TEHMP tuh BIHL uh tee», noun. 1. the quality or state of being contemptible; contemptibleness. 2. Obsolete. contemptuousness …

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