What is another word for beneath contempt?

Pronunciation: [bɪnˌiːθ kəntˈɛmpt] (IPA)

The phrase "beneath contempt" is often used to describe something or someone that is considered utterly despicable or unworthy of attention. Synonyms for this phrase include "despicable," "disgraceful," "repulsive," "abhorrent," "odious," "abominable," "detestable," "vile," "execrable," and "wretched." These words all convey similar meanings and can be used to express extreme distaste or aversion towards something or someone. In many cases, such language is used when there is a moral or ethical component to the issue at hand, and the person or thing in question is believed to have acted in a way that is antithetical to common standards of decency.

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Famous quotes with Beneath contempt

  • No human is beneath contempt i.e. no human is utterly worthless or despicable. Yes! anyone who thinks otherwise is a hater/bigot/racist. You can say I said so.
    Emeasoba George
  • No human is beneath contempt i.e. no human is utterly worthless or despicable. Yes! anyone who thinks otherwise is either a hater/bigot/racist. You can say I said so.
    Emeasoba George
  • We tend to think of [Hitler] as an idiot because the central tenet of his ideology was idiotic – and idiotic, of course, it transparently is. Anti-Semitism is a world view through a pinhole: as scientists say about a bad theory, it is not even wrong. Nietzsche tried to tell Wagner that it was beneath contempt. Sartre was right for once when he said that through anti-Semitism any halfwit could become a member of an elite. But, as the case of Wagner proves, a man can have this poisonous bee in his bonnet and still be a creative genius. Hitler was a destructive genius, whose evil gifts not only beggar description but invite denial, because we find it more comfortable to believe that their consequences were produced by historical forces than to believe that he was a historical force. Or perhaps we just lack the vocabulary. Not many of us, in a secular age, are willing to concede that, in the form of Hitler, Satan visited the Earth, recruited an army of sinners, and fought and won a battle against God. We would rather talk the language of pseudoscience, which at least seems to bring such events to order. But all such language can do is shift the focus of attention down to the broad mass of the German people, which is what Goldhagen has done, in a way that, at least in part, lets Hitler off the hook – and unintentionally reinforces his central belief that it was the destiny of the Jewish race to be expelled from the Volk as an inimical presence.
    Clive James
  • One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised
    Alice Borchardt
  • He’s a trickster figure archetypally speaking. He’s a provocateur and a comedian. The funny thing about comedians is that they are like the jester in the king’s court. The jester was the only person who could tell the truth because he was beneath contempt.
    Milo Yiannopoulos

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