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    contemptible


    1. by the common farmer ; how contemptuously soever the very contemptible authors of some of


    2. Treasure-trove was, in these times, considered as no contemptible part of the revenue of the greatest sovereigns in Europe


    3. “This man is contemptible, but he isn’t guilty of


    4. The inhabitants of cities and burghs, considered as single individuals, had no power to defend themselves; but by entering into a league of mutual defence with their neighbours, they were capable of making no contemptible resistance


    5. The modern maxims of foreign commerce, by aiming at the impoverishment of all our neighbours, so far as they are capable of producing their intended effect, tend to render that very commerce insignificant and contemptible


    6. The protection of the magistrate renders the slave less contemptible in the eyes of his master, who is thereby induced to consider him with more regard, and to treat him with more gentleness


    7. Nothing can be more contemptible than an Indian war in North America; nothing, on the contrary, can be more dreadful than a Tartar invasion has frequently been in Asia


    8. The person subject to such jurisdiction is necessarily degraded by it, and, instead of being one of the most respectable, is rendered one of the meanest and most contemptible persons in the society


    9. A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of human nature


    10. The magistrates of Berne and Zurich, who had no particular quarrel with the pope, established with great ease the reformation in their respective cantons, where just before some of the clergy had, by an imposture somewhat grosser than ordinary, rendered the whole order both odious and contemptible

    11. Such practices, prompted by sheer greed rather than (simply) profit, are contemptible and should be properly regulated


    12. Rather, you think Me evil and My speech contemptible!


    13. Addendum to the above: The most contemptible of all are our putative (political) leaders


    14. To have run for office as the front man for a bigoted terrorist organization, while they were at the height of committing mob violence and terrorism, is deeply contemptible


    15. If true (and Hersch’s report was rejected by two media outlets), that is as contemptible as GW Bush’s lies on Iraq


    16. “Yes, yes, show Captain Flores in, Connie,” Gordon barked at the contemptible box


    17. You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, how have we polluted you? In that you say, the table of the Lord is contemptible


    18. fruit of it, even his meat, is contemptible


    19. 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base


    20. There is nothing contemptible about

    21. For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible


    22. He felt like the most contemptible of men


    23. They said In Bethlehem of Judaea: so it is written in the prophet 6 You also Bethlehem of Judah Are not contemptible among the kings of Judah: From you shall go out a king And he shall be a shepherd to my people Israel


    24. Brent gave him a contemptible glare and stood up to give him eye-to-eye contact


    25. Nevertheless in his dealing he was proud and contemptible, as usual in the persons of quite well-off position


    26. treated her so contemptible? Why had he abused her so badly, his


    27. contemptible than anything he could imagine


    28. Four eyes were so many eyes to look at me; and to the overuse of eyes joined also the scarcity of his words, this inconsistency in eyes and words made me feel as a scrapped, contemptible and unworthy human being


    29. She felt the juvenile part of his life was as pitiable as it was contemptible


    30. Contemptible! Foul! Despicable! But even these descriptions aren't satisfactory

    31. The contemptible angel came, that avenging angel of


    32. them all the more contemptible


    33. A contemptible character breeding more contempt thought Jazz who wasn’t distracted, but certainly interested in the series of framed photographs and diplomas that graced the wall behind him


    34. Though she loves me, doesn’t she think by giving herself, she’s doing me a favor? Why, she couldn’t get rid of her Electra complex even after six years of sex life with me that made her mother twice over! Before her giant of a father, isn’t every man a contemptible midget for her? Short of being explicit, doesn’t she tend to imply that I owe my status and all that goes with it to her redoubtable father?’


    35. The image has been set up to show a contemptible living matching with a vicious look


    36. but as a contemptible mortal


    37. To Byron’s disbelief the contemptible man that constrained her looked to be no man at all


    38. One is vile, contemptible, though he has served me well; the other, kind and good


    39. I don't mean that you in this are a sinner; I only mean that as a general principle half-hearted sinners are contemptible


    40. What a brain, thought Miss Entwhistle, disgusted, sitting up very straight in the wickerwork chair, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes shut; what a contemptible, anæmic brain, deserting her like this, only able to throw up to the surface when stirred, out of all the store of splendid stuff put so assiduously into it during years and years of life, couplets

    41. LanCoste stared blankly ahead as though hardly noticing the expression upon the face of the wicked man with his contemptible grin


    42. The man without courage unconsciously draws to himself all that is contemptible, weakening,


    43. It seemed to me a contemptible way of putting pressure on me given my desperate situation


    44. Kaddafi that contemptible poseur shall join Mubarak and Ben Ali


    45. It was an introduction to a contempt that is contemptible


    46. Men find the getting of truth contemptible; I find that contemptible


    47. And there is nothing contemptible about that


    48. I found the man contemptible, but I stuck to the plan


    49. There is one expression in the letter, one slander about me, and rather a contemptible one


    50. "wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night






































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    Synonyms for "contemptible"

    contemptible despicable vile wretched repellent base treacherous fraudulent

    "contemptible" definitions

    deserving of contempt or scorn