But Darnley's brief rapprochement with the lords was soon over; his intolerable arrogance was made the worse by his contemptibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

My smallness, my contemptibility, I had unwittingly flaunted before him, regarding such things, at that time as signs of my depth and cleverness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kajira Of Gor]

I suspect this entire article was just a cover for making another slam on Palin, who, rather than being defined by her enemies, is building her influence on the contemptibility of her critics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Coincidence? You Be the Judge:] Reference

To do so would be to see the mean contemptibility of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Prayer] Reference

I think a whipping would suit better your contemptibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tar-Heel Baron] Reference

Paying no attention to the glorious reward of patience, nor to the contemptibility of.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Ban urges G20 leaders to invest in 'green' economy on second day of Toronto summit] Reference

Farther letters on this tragic contemptibility I find none; indeed, perhaps hardly any came till my own sad re-appearance in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

In the voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag he displays the littleness and moral contemptibility of human nature; in that to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

An example of Ben Gurion's contemptibility is his treatment of the Templers, Germans expelled from mandate Palestine by the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)] Reference

I have sometimes been his apologist: but the scene of to day has left deep in my mind the impression of his perfect contemptibility, and I henceforth deem no revilings too severe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpts from the Diary of William S. Mullins, November 23 through 25, 1840] Reference

Pasquale (replacing Pablo Schreiber) captures Kent's pathetic side as sharply as his contemptibility, while Perabo does a nice job illustrating that Carly's vulnerability can't be hidden behind a badge and a uniform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variety.com] Reference

Some may suppose that the first discovery excludes the last; but such forget that there is the same difference between cussedness and contemptibility that exists between the leopard and the louse, between a Cuban hurricane and the crapulous eructations of a chronic hoodlum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

There or elsewhere, Ethelred the Unready had no battle in him whatever; and, for a forty years after the beginning of his reign, England excelled in anarchic stupidity, murderous devastation, utter misery, platitude, and sluggish contemptibility, all the countries one has read of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Kings of Norway] Reference

I feel that you have treated this Court with the greatest contemptibility! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On] Reference

"... attaching an illegal status to a person establishes a brand of contemptibility,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

We can’t go and kill the rednecks or deprive them of their basic freedoms just because they’re so contemptible and morally reprehensible (again unless they have committed a morally heinous crime or are responsible or culpable attackers, etc.), but their contemptibility and moral reprehensibility should make a difference to what we’re morally required (and even permitted) to do to help them at the expense of non-responsible / non-culpable others (of which the colt with the capacity for consciousness would be one)).    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference

They vary from loveliness to contemptibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17.] Reference

From such nobility those are descended whom you call world-rulers, that is, emperors; whom we, namely the Lombards, Saxons, Franks, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Swabians, Burgundians, so despise, that when angry we can call our enemies nothing more scornful than Roman—comprehending in this one thing, that is in the name of the Romans, whatever there is of contemptibility, of timidity, of avarice, of luxury, of lying: in a word, of viciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference