contemptible
part of speech
adjective (more contemptible, most contemptible)
meaning for a pupil
So mean or bad that people despise it and deserve scorn. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary lessons: in tales, a cruel or mean act that the good hero cannot respect: the thief's trick was contemptible.
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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- It was a contemptible trick to cheat at the game. tree →
- He told a lie and felt contemptible. tree →
- Stealing from a friend is contemptible. tree →
note
nothing for maths.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «contemptible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.