contemptible: may imply any quality provoking scorn or a low standings in any scale of values: a ~ bigot and liar.   scale of value价值尺度价值观


despicable: may imply utter worthlessness and usually suggests arousing an attitude of moral indignation: the ~ crime of child abuse.


pitiable: applies to what inspires mixed contempt and pity and often attributes weakness to the agent: the play is his ~ attempt at tragedy.


sorry: may stress pitiable or ridiculous inadequacy, wretchedness, or sordidness: the orphanage was a very ~ place.  （wretched有2个意思，1.不喜欢可恶的不舒服的what arouses dislike or anger or unhappiness,如wretched woman, he thought, why the hell can't she wait他想,可恶的女人,怎么就不能等一等呢  2.可怜的pitiable，如they lived on their wretched crops他们靠可怜的一点庄稼为生，the country's 37 million people are wretchedly poor该国3700万人一贫如洗）


scurvy: adds to despicable an implication of arousing disgust: the offer of help turned out to be a ~ trick.  scurvy本意是缺乏维生素C导致的败血病


cheap: may imply contemptibility resulting from undue familiarity or accessibility: treatment that make her feel ~; but more often implies contemptible pettiness or meanness: critics who condemned the book with ~ remarks.   谚语familiarity breeds contempt熟悉使人轻视，注意不要写成familarity      (petty小small and unimportant，如petty criticism琐屑批评,mean不高尚not noble，如is very mean to him对他很不好)


contemptible让人轻视: 可以指任何价值尺度上让人轻视评价低的任何属性，despicable让人鄙视: 程度更重,表示完全没有价值,甚至令人愤慨，pitiable可怜的: 表示既让人轻视又让人怜悯,常表示虚弱无力，sorry可怜的悲哀的: 表示让人可怜的不足恶劣肮脏，scurvy让人作呕: 在despicable基础上增加了恶心的意思，cheap廉价;小刻薄: 指由于熟悉容易接近而被轻视；或表示小刻薄


记忆方法: 1）首字母CDPSSC品德差出身差(从中间往两边读)<==可鄙


         2）可鄙的意思是让人鄙视mean arousing or deserving scorn.      （scorn深深鄙视profound contempt, 如her actions were scorned by many people许多人都深深鄙视她的所作所为）