contemptibility
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The film cannot afford to depict Kelly in all her contemptibility, because a villain of Roger Ailes’ caliber requires an equal and opposite hero.
From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2019
The best TV villains are the ones that walk the fine line between contemptibility and lovability.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2012
Such a buffet of contemptibility can work--see Curb Your Enthusiasm--with a good, mature cast.
From Time Magazine Archive
I lived in a panic, lest I should be suspected of shamming contemptibility.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
It was Henry Fowler who awoke me to a sense of my own contemptibility.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
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