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
It was Henry Fowler who awoke me to a sense of my own contemptibility.
From Project Gutenberg
This intensity of emotion gives them an elevation and a heroic interest that outlasts contemptibility or pathos.
From Project Gutenberg
That she should have had but one issue of her body and that he should have had to be that particular mixture of all the contemptibilities, "bar none," is too odious to swallow.
From Project Gutenberg
I lived in a panic, lest I should be suspected of shamming contemptibility.
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