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Adjective: contemptible  kun'tem(p)-tu-bul
  1. Deserving of contempt or scorn
    "You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public"

See also: abject, bastardly, ignoble, low, low-down, mean, miserable, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, scummy, scurvy, unworthy

Antonym: estimable

Encyclopedia: Contemptible