{"id":1754,"date":"2017-01-19T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T10:25:13","slug":"contemptible-and-contemptuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/contemptible-and-contemptuous\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemptible and contemptuous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Many people confuse the words <strong>contemptible and contemptuous<\/strong>. <strong>Contemptible<\/strong> means despicable. If something is contemptible, it is deserving of contempt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spreading gossip is <strong>contemptible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>All terrorists are <strong>contemptible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contemptuous<\/strong> means feeling contempt for someone or something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am <strong>contemptuous<\/strong> of all terrorists. (= I feel contempt for all terrorists.)<\/li>\n<li>Snobs are usually <strong>contemptuous<\/strong> of people they feel to be inferior to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people confuse the words contemptible and contemptuous. Contemptible means despicable. If something is contemptible, it is deserving of contempt.\u00a0 Spreading gossip is contemptible.\u00a0 All terrorists are contemptible.\u00a0 Contemptuous means feeling contempt for someone&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[375,376],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-contemptible","tag-contemptuous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}