All 16 Uses
contemptible
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- There is one expression in the letter, one slander about me, and rather a contemptible one.†
Chpt 3.3 *contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
- "And Pyotr Petrovitch is a contemptible slanderer," Dounia snapped out, suddenly.†
Chpt 3.4
- It is very probable, too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by everyone, to show those "wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night.†
Chpt 5.2
- Probably "taking his cue" from Luzhin, "that contemptible wretch Lebeziatnikov had not turned up either.†
Chpt 5.2
- Katerina Ivanovna rose from her chair, and with a stern and apparently calm voice (though she was pale and her chest was heaving) observed that "if she dared for one moment to set her contemptible wretch of a father on a level with her papa, she, Katerina Ivanovna, would tear her cap off her head and trample it under foot."†
Chpt 5.2
- There's only one thing I can't understand: what made him risk such a contemptible action.†
Chpt 5.3
- He at once wrote a note to my mother and informed her that I had given away all my money, not to Katerina Ivanovna but to Sofya Semyonovna, and referred in a most contemptible way to the...character of Sofya Semyonovna, that is, hinted at the character of my attitude to Sofya Semyonovna.†
Chpt 5.3
- They are worrying and persecuting you through a stupid and contemptible suspicion....Dmitri Prokofitch told me that there is no danger, and that you are wrong in looking upon it with such horror.†
Chpt 5.5
- These young men are contemptible on that point.†
Chpt 6.6
- I am a contemptible person, Dounia.†
Chpt 6.7
- A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!†
Chpt 6.7
- It's simply because I am contemptible and have nothing in me that I have decided to, perhaps too for my advantage, as that...Porfiry...suggested!†
Chpt 6.7
- By that stupidity I only wanted to put myself into an independent position, to take the first step, to obtain means, and then everything would have been smoothed over by benefits immeasurable in comparison....But I... I couldn't carry out even the first step, because I am contemptible, that's what's the matter!†
Chpt 6.7
- Oh, I knew I was contemptible when I stood looking at the Neva at daybreak to-day!†
Chpt 6.7
- I am a beggarly contemptible wretch, contemptible!†
Chpt 6.8
- I am a beggarly contemptible wretch, contemptible!†
Chpt 6.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemptible) very bad (deserving no respect)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)