A man who smacks his wife around is contemptible.
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Contemptible
//kənˈtɛmptəbəl//
Synonyms for "contemptible" (238 found)
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Strong matches (71)
Adjective(27 words)
Related words (119)
Adjective(51 words)
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1 entriesderived
4 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
16 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 31 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- ва́рты пага́рды adj (deserving contempt)
- нікчэмны adj (deserving contempt)
Bulgarian
3 entries- достоен за презрение adj (deserving contempt)
- низък adj (deserving contempt)
- подъл adj (deserving contempt)
Catalan
1 entries- menyspreable adj (deserving contempt)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 可鄙 adj (deserving contempt)
Czech
1 entries- opovrženíhodný adj (deserving contempt)
Dutch
1 entries- verachtelijk adj (deserving contempt)
Esperanto
1 entries- aĉa adj (deserving contempt)
Finnish
2 entries- alhainen adj (deserving contempt)
- halveksittava adj (deserving contempt)
French
1 entries- méprisable adj (deserving contempt)
Galician
1 entries- desprezábel adj (deserving contempt)
German
2 entries- verachtenswert adj (deserving contempt)
- verachtenswürdig adj (deserving contempt)
Hebrew
2 entries- בזוי adj (deserving contempt)
- בזויה adj (deserving contempt)
Hungarian
1 entries- megvetendő adj (deserving contempt)
Ido
1 entries- desestiminda adj (deserving contempt)
Irish
4 entries- drochmheasúil adj (deserving contempt)
- dímhigneach adj (deserving contempt)
- míolach adj (deserving contempt)
- neamhshuimiúil adj (deserving contempt)
Italian
4 entries- biasimabile adj (deserving contempt)
- disdicevole adj (deserving contempt)
- disprezzabile adj (deserving contempt)
- ignobile adj (deserving contempt)
Japanese
1 entries- 蔑むべき adj (deserving contempt)
Latin
2 entries- contemptibilis adj (deserving contempt)
- contemptus adj (deserving contempt)
Macedonian
4 entries- ни́зок adj (deserving contempt)
- по́дмолен adj (deserving contempt)
- по́дол adj (deserving contempt)
- пре́зрив adj (deserving contempt)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- foraktelig adj (deserving contempt)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- آلچاق adj (deserving contempt)
- ذلیل adj (deserving contempt)
- رذیل adj (deserving contempt)
Persian
1 entries- خوار adj (deserving contempt)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- niedatrajchtich adj (deserving contempt)
Polish
1 entries- godny pogardy adj (deserving contempt)
Portuguese
1 entries- desprezível adj (deserving contempt)
Romanian
2 entries- demn de dispreț adj (deserving contempt)
- disprețuibil adj (deserving contempt)
Russian
3 entries- ни́зкий adj (deserving contempt)
- подлый adj (deserving contempt)
- презре́нный adj (deserving contempt)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- podao adj (deserving contempt)
Spanish
4 entries- bajo adj (deserving contempt)
- contentible adj (deserving contempt)
- desdeñable adj (deserving contempt)
- despreciable adj (deserving contempt)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зневажений adj (deserving contempt)
Yagara
1 entries- ban adj (deserving contempt)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Source: tatoeba (714844)
Nothing is more contemptible than respect that is based on fear.
Source: tatoeba (2132234)
Nothing is more contemptible than respect based on fear.
Source: tatoeba (2132237)
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