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# contemptible

adjective (more contemptible, most contemptible)

«contemptible» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

So mean or bad that people despise it and deserve scorn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a cruel or mean act that the good hero cannot respect: the thief's trick was contemptible.

### Examples

- It was a contemptible trick to cheat at the game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#x1)
- He told a lie and felt contemptible. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#x2)
- Stealing from a friend is contemptible. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## In Jewish tradition

Despised or worthless. Malachi uses it for offerings and the altar treated as unworthy.

**Interpretation.** Malachi is read as rebuking priests who offered poor animals. Tradition teaches that God's service should get the best we have.

### Examples

- And ye say: 'Wherein have we polluted thee?' In that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is contemptible.' (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contemptible/#x1)
- A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease, a thing ready for them whose foot slippeth. (Writings JOB.12.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contemptible/#x2)
- But ye profane it, in that ye say: 'The table of the LORD is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even the food thereof, is contemptible.' (Prophets MAL.1.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contemptible/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «contemptible» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemptible/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«contemptible» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/contemptible.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «contemptible» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contemptible/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«contemptible» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/contemptible.html) on Mova free.