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.
To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
Instead we have a government that seems determined to be re-elected by scaremongering and it's utterly contemptible.
Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders.
To suggest that people employed in breeding dogs and so forth can be viewed in the same light is contemptible.
Men guilty of the most odious and contemptible crimes. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
The doctrines which the sages had associated with the idea of Serapis, debased and degraded by the most contemptible trivialities; lost all their worth and dignity; and after the great Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The criminals who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low - contemptible cowards whose targets are the frail and solitary.
Such childhood enthusiasm ensured that the novelist later on would have to be punished with our indulgent contempt, before we eventually realized that our loftiness was more contemptible than his confusions.
The glory of Moab shall be contemned, that is, it shall be contemptible, when all those things they have gloried in shall come to nothing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
It can only be seen as a professor's contemptible effort to bully a student with whose politics he disagrees.
After all the horror stories about victims of insurane company abuse, the blatant display of avarice is contemptible and cruel. Think Progress » WellPoint CEO receives a 51 percent increase in compensation.
His personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.
Back to the contemptible hive of infamy from which you came!
True, but vacuous, weasel-worded, fact-free, faux-expert prognostications by contemptible establishmentarian hacks rank pretty low on the list of charities I donate to. Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence
They fight to be true to themselves and good to others, and perhaps out of hatred for the sheer contemptible venality of capital's favorites.
It adds to the basic concept the notion of smallness (as also in gosling, fledgeling) or the somewhat related notion of contemptible (as in weakling, princeling, hireling). Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
Don't agree the fiver is a digression - even if it had been 50p or £5000, it would be equally contemptible. Guy Fawkes' blog
Brandt's fools as contemptible and loathsome, and say what he calls follies might be better described as sins and vices. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
This does not rate a reply, it is so contemptible.
Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere, was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil, an appearance that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds. V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
Men guilty of the most odious and contemptible crimes. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
But then, cavilling is contemptible, as all controversialists declare! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
The Norsemen were apparently as sexist as we are: all of the following, flag, giglet, gimmer, skit, and slattern generally mean ` low, contemptible woman '; only may ` maiden' has survived with specific reference to women without pejoration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
August at the convention of treason he took the material where and as he found we see him trying hard to bring the money power of the union into his service, we find him extorting large sums for his political campaigns from the so-called despisable trusts, since then we became accustomed to look upon every man of wealth and the great industrials corporations who have been and are today of incalculable value and benefit to our national welfare, as nothing more or less than contemptible criminals, whom he offended in the most profane language during his crusade against them, if they refused to become a part of his machine. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
As amongst all the trees and plants of the earth the bramble is the most troublesome, so it is also the most contemptible. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
For his love alone does she remain in that contemptible town, suffering the lonesomeness of teenage cruelty.
But a concerted campaign to brand him a psychopath is, to my mind, not merely gutter journalism but contemptible.
'avesse l'inferno in gran dispetto,' – he had a very contemptible opinion of hell. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
And even if they killed him now, Brennan and the "Gallant kid" would know that he died trying to protect them, that he wasn't a contemptible "squealer" after all. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles
What a contemptible science this is, then, about which quartos are written, and sixty-volumed Biographies Universelles, and The Paris Sketch Book
The pity that proves so possible and plentiful without that basis, is mere _ignavia_ and cowardly effeminacy; maudlin laxity of heart, grounded on blinkard dimness of head -- contemptible as a drunkard's tears. Latter-Day Pamphlets
We dread both to be contemptible and to be contemned.
Either way, the two men represent all that is vile and contemptible about American politics.
A brief guillotining of something called The Magic Christian begins, "Unfunny camp is contemptible.
On at least three occasions the way you treated this girl was cowardly and contemptible.
Does this mean that my life has been reduced to something contemptible and meaningless? Times, Sunday Times
Alas there is no reason why the most odious, contemptible people might not be able to make the sweetest, most wonderful creations.
Alas there is no reason why the most odious, contemptible people might not be able to make the sweetest, most wonderful creations.
Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement. A Week To Go
I understand now how the war ended a contemptible reign of terror by brutal religious bigots.
This whole pander is perhaps the most disgusting, contemptible thing we've seen from her yet, and I doubt she's come close to hitting bottom yet. Spurred by gas tax debate, Clinton goes on offensive
Now, Great Britain rose from the "contemptible army" to something like 14 per cent. of the population before she had compulsory service; and with compulsory service, she has risen to something like 20 per cent. The Turning of the Tide of War
Those who think there should be the promised referendum find these arguments unconvincing to the point of being contemptible. Times, Sunday Times
He finds Obama's position "dismaying" and even quotes British political philosopher Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. James Warren: This Week in Magazines: What's at Stake in the Election, Atlantic's Redesign and The New Yorker's Brainiacs
SIR - People talk about contempt of court, but the truth is that courts themselves are contemptible by the silly sentences they hand out.
Does this mean that my life has been reduced to something contemptible and meaningless? Times, Sunday Times
Books assigned in school (with a few puzzling exceptions) were the most contemptible of all, since those dunces, our teachers, had heard of them.
He must have been sportive and wanton in his inventions — yet that cruel, that savage sportiveness has saved you from the sudden violence to which he has had recourse in the violation of others, of names and families not contemptible. Clarissa Harlowe
Despite "the occasional whiff of adjectival overexuberance" The Guardian sniffs, in a contemptible piece of writing which makes me want to headbutt the author, The Tiger's Wife is "vivid and limber; a picaresque romp through the fragments of former Yugoslavia. The Orange Prize Has Let Us Down
Does this mean that my life has been reduced to something contemptible and meaningless? Times, Sunday Times
Jaibriol was a secret psion, with telepathic abilities, and to be a psion in the Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave, eventually to be tortured for the pleasure of the slave's owner. Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books
Defense of that contemptible ogre is the very farthest thing from my mind. Think Progress » FEMA Abruptly Abandons Long-Term Recovery Office In New Orleans
Back to the contemptible hive of infamy from which you came!
Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in completion of it, had not happened to look at Young John; when she was again so overcome by the contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion. Little Dorrit
The raw lad finds "debauches" mentioned with majestic melancholy, and he naturally fancies that, although a debauch may be wicked, it is neither nasty nor contemptible. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
The criminals who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low - contemptible cowards whose targets are the frail and solitary.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ is a contemptible attempt at a pangram.
The suicide is contemptible, besides being pitiable, when he is hounded out of life despite himself, when he is a little embezzler of a clerk who rushes from the music hall to the Thames and thinks of the unfinished glass with his last breath. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Could she truly be so shallow as to be drawn to a weak-minded, contemptible villein better suited to walk behind an ox plowing fields than dare to lift his eyes to a queen? Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Old Contemptibles, come down to be mothered and hushaby-baby'd by a blanky recruit, with the first polish hardly off his new buttons. Action Front
Those who disclaim trifling and obvious qualities are called humbugs and are more contemptible; and sometimes this seems to be boastfulness, like the Spartan dress; for both excess and great deficiency are boastful. The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
the British call a contemptible person a `git'
The world is apt to despise the worship of the saints, as mean and contemptible, -- unmeet for the majesty of God. The Sermons of John Owen
It was a contemptible trick to tell lies and play on an old friend!
If the move was another earmark bonanza from the Federal trough, well, that would be par for the contemptible course of the GOP and just our payoff for Alaska getting The Bridge to Nowhere, I guess. Waldo Jaquith - Thanks to Goode, Martinsville owes some $145,000.
It is an amazing commentary on the vitality and the power of the contemptible little Army of less than two years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe; his party disbanded in England. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
Those who disclaim trifling and obvious qualities are called humbugs and are more contemptible; and sometimes this seems to be boastfulness, like the The Nicomachean Ethics
It was contemptible of him to speak like that about a respectable teacher!
These are so contemptible and so absurdly false, that they do not merit any other notice than to write _false_, _false_, on every page. Hortense Makers of History Series
Those who think there should be the promised referendum find these arguments unconvincing to the point of being contemptible. Times, Sunday Times
If he does, his failure to spell this out is contemptible.
The King's Speech on the surface could be seen as almost subversive; the odious characters believe in rank and grandeur, whether it be their sneer at Australian Lionel Logue's audition for a Shakespeare play, or the contemptible bully-boy tactics which Cameron recently showed in Parliament of Prince Edward toward his brother. John Johnston: The Royal Wedding and the British Relationship With Class
It is an amazing commentary on the vitality and the power of the contemptible little Army of less than two years ago. Times, Sunday Times
To say that statistics mitigate murder is obviously contemptible.
This I find to be contemptible because it is the result of an activity dissimilar to smoking, but also because it implies that smoking in public should banned.
All, therefore, that happened amiss, in the course even of domestic affairs, was attributed to the government; and as it always happens in this kind of officious universal interference, what began in odious power ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
Compared to weekly wages of skilled labourers, these amounts seem almost contemptible, and should perhaps be thought of as honoraria rather than salaries.
This people — I mean the more lofty-minded of these crusaders, who act up to the pretences of the doctrines which they call chivalry — despise the thirst of gold, and gold itself, unless to hilt their swords, or to furnish forth some necessary expenses, as alike useless and contemptible. Count Robert of Paris
But John Aston and Pete Knight are members of the Old Contemptibles, which is a group of First World War enthusiasts based in the Midlands. Express & Star
I sat there in quiet, feeling regretful for anything contemptible I ever thought about the many sitting in front of me.
His personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.
To mischaracterize and attack an organization whose sole mission is to end harassment is contemptible.
There is always something slightly contemptible about sport. Times, Sunday Times
16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It is not possible to treat others with respect when we act in a way that says that who they are or what they believe makes them worthless or contemptible as human beings.
Truly I cannot but wonder whether it doth not sometimes enter into these men’s thoughts to apprehend how contemptible they are in their proofs for the fathering of such an ecclesiastical distribution of governors and government, as undeniably lackeyed after the civil divisions and constitutions of the times and places wherein it was introduced, upon those holy persons, whose souls never once entered into the secrets thereof. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
His personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.
Cynics have sneeringly dismissed the latter role as that of a messenger boy, as if there were something contemptible about messenger boys.
Catherine was ready to explode. "I think you're contemptible!".
It was contemptible of him to speak like that about a respectable teacher!
To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
She pointed to several sheets of paper, written upon in a hand which shewed that the harridan had been no contemptible pen-woman in her younger days.
The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
There is no place in that process for the contemptible cultural vandalism that the IPO valiantly withstood. Times, Sunday Times
The person and cause of the Pretender were become contemptible; his title disowned throughout Europe, his party disbanded in England. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.
But in this matter as in other larger ones in the same ballpark, the language of diminishing comparison is contemptible.
Under the auspices of the Board of Erin "the shoneen" -- the most contemptible of all our Ireland Since Parnell
The struggle would be contemptible because, without party unity, they would not stand a chance, and they would be unpitied because their adversaries would be merciless.
Brandt's fools are represented as contemptible and loathsome rather than _foolish_, and what he calls follies might be more correctly described as sins and vices. The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
We were contemptible to attend to which Edgar Scott, a partial of of unequivocally prolonged standing, has motionless to renounce from a Society, given he feels which he can no longer have a prolonged expostulate home after cooking meetings. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
Though a rock star, he found most rock music contemptible and really wanted to be a jazz and symphonic composer.
But perhaps not: a victim is not necessarily ignoble or contemptible, except in the racist terms of others.
The finger of blame and anger should be directed at our policy makers in recent years and their contemptible combination of wishful thinking, political opportunism and incompetence. Times, Sunday Times
The corruption and hollowness revealed in the prosecution of this war are too contemptible for words.
This foolish and contemptible product of years wasted in mining the shafts of indignation has been published by the cow-besieged, basketball-sotted sleep-away camp for hick bourgeois offspring, Indiana University, under the aegis of its University Press, a traditional dumping ground for academic deadwood so bereft of talent, intelligence, and endeavor as to be useless even in the dull precincts of midwestern state college classrooms. P.J. O’Wowser
This people -- I mean the more lofty-minded of these crusaders, who act up to the pretences of the doctrines which they call chivalry -- despise the thirst of gold, and gold itself, unless to hilt their swords, or to furnish forth some necessary expenses, as alike useless and contemptible. Waverley Novels — Volume 12

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