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Definition of "contemptibleness" []

  • The state or quality of being contemptible. (noun)

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Use "contemptibleness" in a sentence
  • "But isn't the What's Your Goal scheme hobbled by the sheer contemptibleness of so much modern football – how it's in hock to money-grubbers, divorced from its working-class roots, how its leading practitioners are foul-mouthed multi-millionaires, how even its organising bodies are mired in corruption allegations?"
  • "My most hated word is staring back at me, in utter contemptibleness."
  • "I am inclined to set down the events of my little world for the past week; that in days to come, should it prove that I have been following "cunningly devised fables," I may beware of such entanglements again; and that if they be found a guidance from above, their contemptibleness and seeming folly may be shown to be in wisdom."