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Sentence Examples It can only be seen as a professor's contemptible effort to bully a student with whose politics he disagrees. Either way, the two men represent all that is vile and contemptible about American politics. Though a rock star, he found most rock music contemptible and really wanted to be a jazz and symphonic composer. On at least three occasions the way you treated this girl was cowardly and contemptible. Instead we have a government that seems determined to be re-elected by scaremongering and it's utterly contemptible. Yet, amid all the sound and fury, the most contemptible phenomenon is the trahison des clercs. To suggest that people employed in breeding dogs and so forth can be viewed in the same light is contemptible. 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. Alas there is no reason why the most odious, contemptible people might not be able to make the sweetest, most wonderful creations. But in this matter as in other larger ones in the same ballpark, the language of diminishing comparison is contemptible. For his love alone does she remain in that contemptible town, suffering the lonesomeness of teenage cruelty. Cynics have sneeringly dismissed the latter role as that of a messenger boy, as if there were something contemptible about messenger boys. The crimes that the men committed are contemptible and grave, and the men deserve to lose their liberty for them. To mischaracterize and attack an organization whose sole mission is to end harassment is contemptible. I understand now how the war ended a contemptible reign of terror by brutal religious bigots. It is the interest of the freedom fighters to have a contemptible and tyrannical regime as their opponent. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. I sat there in quiet, feeling regretful for anything contemptible I ever thought about the many sitting in front of me. The corruption and hollowness revealed in the prosecution of this war are too contemptible for words. If such a contemptible miscreant shall have it in his power to do such deeds of inhumanity and oppression, what avails the law? Show More Sentences As a literary offense, contextomy ranges from simple and perhaps naive disingenuousness to malicious and contemptible dishonesty. Books assigned in school were the most contemptible of all, since those dunces, our teachers, had heard of them. But a concerted campaign to brand him a psychopath is, to my mind, not merely gutter journalism but contemptible. Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. 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. That of course was contemptible and directly counter to every laudable value this country stands for. Few men are more contemptible than the brilliantly censorious critic who is deliberately wounding just for the sake of a witticism. The anti-politics mood is rising, and its rivals' countermeasures have been contemptible. Russian President Dimitri Medvedev announced the end of the contemptible regime of Saakashvili. They cannot hear you because they are sitting on the other side of the room, but you are contemptuous, and in addition, you are contemptible. Not to achieve a result and not to display a willingness to negotiate would simply be contemptible. That many of the victims were innocent civilians enjoying a sporting event makes this attack even more contemptible. To say that statistics mitigate murder is obviously contemptible. But if you do, bear in mind that ugly and contemptible things lurk beneath its surface. 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. Compared to weekly wages of skilled labourers, these amounts seem almost contemptible, and should perhaps be thought of as honoraria rather than salaries. 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. 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. I will avoid playing judge of the late Levy Mwanawasa’s presidency, as it is both dishonorable and contemptible to fustigate a person unable to defend themselves. Show More Sentences 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. Back to the contemptible hive of infamy from which you came! Today Galicia, and also the whole of Europe, is suffering from the black shadow' caused by political irresponsibility and the contemptible interests of the mafias that control maritime traffic and flags of convenience. This past year has again seen the drastic measures that extremist individuals or groups are ready to take to attack a country or system they consider contemptible. This type of attack on individuals who are learning how to protect their fellow citizens and uphold the rule of law can only be described as contemptible and cowardly. I want to ask the minister, will she now, in light of this, withdraw her defence of big pharma and her contemptible attack on patients whom she blamed for taking too many pills? To deliberately target a police college, where dedicated individuals come to learn how to protect their fellow citizens, is particularly contemptible. In their baffling, contemptible wrong-headedness they stand with every boss who passed us over for promotion in favor of some less-able brown-noser and every crush who wouldn't date us. Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is becoming infamous for taking money away from farmers, but his retroactive changes to the family farm options program is contemptible. She charged that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects. The contemptible trick practised by Mr. Anderson, in the first chapter of his pseudo-history, must not pass without due correction. It was a contemptible televised circus in which the politics of race conspired with police and judicial incompetence to let a murder go unpunished. Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human condition – even as a positive and useful experience. I could never have imagined that freezing walks and scandalous vets' bills would one day feel like no trouble at all To the non-dog owner, I know how contemptible all this might sound. The son of a doctor who helped pioneer the treatment of HIV, he was clearly upset at Nigel Farage's contemptible pre-election attempt to tap into resentment of foreign-born HIV-positive patients. The situation in Darfur at this very moment is so contemptible, so reprehensibly inhuman and so incredibly sad that the option of doing nothing is really no option at all. And I will yet be more contemptible than this, and will be abased in my own sight: and of the maidservants whom you have spoken, of them shall I be held in honor. Slovenliness is the most contemptible of aesthetic sins. Shallow water gives a great splash, and so a braggart has ever been contemptible in my eyes. Madam President, Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf's allegation of deliberate mixing of this contaminate into feed is contemptible and unworthy of any professional politician. Show More Sentences It is contemptible that the EU attempts to bury such provisions in these types of reports, and then requires MEPs to vote on them as a whole and not individual parts. And remember when ye met, He showed them to you as few in your eyes, and He made you appear as contemptible in their eyes: that Allah might accomplish a matter already decided. Examples from Classical Literature You talk of your honour and your truth when you did such a contemptible thing! It proves that you are a fortune hunter of the lowest and most contemptible sort. It is a contemptible and derisory gift for luck, like vituperative outcries. Uncle George's manner at once underwent a complete and contemptible change. Schrecklichkeit was to deter the contemptible Belgian Army from spoiling a mighty German success. Have I shown no proof of that weakness or effeminacy which is so contemptible in a man? A dandified man is always ridiculous, but when he adds to his foppery, effemination, he then becomes contemptible. They are by no means a contemptible study either for the psychologist or the ethnographer. I know full well how contemptible the affectations and hypocrisies of life are. His remuneration as dramatist between 1599 and 1611 was also by no means contemptible. No paltry little anecdote or incident, germane or not, is too contemptible for him. Marbella, though invested with the pomp and circumstance of war, is but a contemptible fortress. A man may always study, but he must not always go to school what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! As it was, his motives were as abhorrent, as his methods were foolish and contemptible. They achieve repartee the brilliance of which dazzles him to contemptible silence. I have become what I am, because to me the broad canvas alone is interesting, and picayunish prejudices are contemptible. A traitor is a despicable character, while a poltroon is only contemptible. In quiescence they had allowed the country to become contemptible. I'm a contemptible thing that runs to its burrow when it hears of danger. What merit was there in being what it would be contemptible not to be? Show More Sentences It had been seen, already, that his skill was far from being contemptible, and he now resolved to put forth its nicest qualities. Why, you contemptible, lubberly young rascal, what do you mean? The meanest and most contemptible kind of cheating is quackery. I've a very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit. The dynamiter is a coward who is even more contemptible than a boodler. Not another inch, you contemptible whelp, or I'll brain you! The contemptible beast was inspired, as a politician is, a demagogue. Albert, with all his scholasticism, was no contemptible naturalist. One is lowdown and contemptible and nasty, and the other is expedient. Harriet's claims to marry well are not so contemptible as you represent them. Uncas had cast his body back against the wall of the hut and closed his eyes, as if willing to exclude so contemptible and disagreeable an object from his sight. It is, in nine cases out of ten, the more or less contemptible outpouring of vanity and conceit which the writer dare not exhibit to any mortal but himself. The event has proved, that I was a cunning fool, providing with great circumspection for a possible opportunity of making myself contemptible and wretched for ever. For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favour to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average. Though not ill-natured, she was narrow-minded enough to be in some degree contemptible, and was consequently prone to suspect others of despising her. Apply the contemptible system of self-delusion which my confession has revealed, to that holiday arrangement for a tour in the north which has astonished and annoyed you. Find more words! 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