contemptible

How To Use contemptible In A Sentence

• The classics are retained as a subject in which all must qualify; and the education provided for the ordinary passman is of a contemptible, smattering kind; it is really no education at all. From a College Window
• To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
• They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence. The Growth of English Drama
• Another showed the contemptible hypocrisy of the man, whose lustful glances at other women, as he walks with his wife, changes to anger as another man targets his wife.
• It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end.
• It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
• But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life. Becoming Susan Sontag
• That is, the church of Christ founded in humility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and contemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair and beautiful. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
• The crimes that the men committed are contemptible and grave, and the men deserve to lose their liberty for them.
• It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.