Contemptibility in a sentence as a noun

People are welcome to do what they want with their cities, but in removing this statue, it will become like all banned art, a symbol of the pettiness and contemptibility of the regime that removed it, and of the individual human greatness they fear most.

Contemptibility definitions

noun

unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

See also: baseness sordidness despicableness despicability