| Culture Minister TB Ekanayake said that police officers had contemptibly devalued traditional weddings in a devoutly Buddhist country. |
| For so long she had acted a part, that it would be tragic to break down feebly, contemptibly, now close to the end of the drama. |
| He had won her trust, and had used it contemptibly for his own despicable ends. |
| Changed to some contemptibly small process on which success depends. |
| He talks well, is master of style, and writes not contemptibly in verse. |
| To shock and alarm with enacted savagery is contemptibly easy. |
