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Meanings of contemptibility in English
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bastardia Synonyms
Examples for "baseness"
Examples for "baseness"
1
He exalted the dignity of labor, and scorned all baseness and lies.
2
They are not in love with baseness: it is forced upon them.
3
In the discovery of her baseness, she had made a poor figure.
4
Upon the line of baseness,-thedeserter is placed next to the traitor.
5
When Parker painted the moral baseness of the times, men acquiesced shamefacedly.
1
For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace.
2
The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
3
This soul poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
4
But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness.
5
There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me.
1
O the meanness, the despicability of men who begrudge a woman the right to work anywhere, in any honorable calling!
2
John Milton almost glorified him by witchery of description, but he is the concentration of all meanness and of all despicability.
3
"What acts of petty despicability have you wrought this day?"
Usage of contemptibility in English
1
I had not had in mind when I spoke the contemptibility of suicide to these people.
2
The old ballad, "I wish I were where Helen lies," is silly to contemptibility.
3
Neutrality, on the uncertainty and contemptibility of.
4
In its way it was a tragedy-thegrimmest of all-forits dominant note was the contemptibility of human nature.
5
Cowardice, political, contemptibility of.
6
He was, therefore, certainly what the world calls a great man, though he had great faults, and many littlenesses and contemptibilities.
Frequent collocations
Contemptibility through the time