All 5 Uses of
contemptible
in
The Trial
- Nothing would have been more nonsensical and, above all, more pointless and contemptible.
Chpt 1contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
- And he imagined the most laughable scene possible as an example of this, if this contemptible student, this inflated child, this knock-kneed redbeard, if he were kneeling at Elsa's bed wringing his hands and begging for forgiveness.
Chpt 3
- If all the junior officers were contemptible why would the whip-man, whose position was the most inhumane of all, be any exception, and K. had noticed very clearly how his eyes had lit up when he saw the banknotes, he had obviously only seemed serious about the flogging to raise the level of the bribe a little.
Chpt 5
- Perhaps you've already heard how Dr. Huld talks about the petty lawyers, he probably made them sound very contemptible to you,
Chpt 8 *contemptible = bad (deserving no respect)
- Perhaps you've already heard how Dr. Huld talks about the petty lawyers, he probably made them sound very contemptible to you, and he's right, they are contemptible.
Chpt 8contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
Definition:
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(contemptible) very bad (deserving no respect)