They do not even deserve a reply; they are so contemptible. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
With a man such as yourself every war, even the most contemptible, is possible. From Wordnik.com. [Pilots in Pajamas - Part 9] Reference
What I find contemptible is that outside Niall Fergeson (sp?) no one on the Right seems willing to openly admit that object. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Arming Sunnis] Reference
"The only thing is what do they call contemptible?. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Electoral Court was "contemptible," the African National Congress said on Saturday. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Then good people would finally know the kind of contemptible people this nation breeds. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How Waterboarding Was Done] Reference
I don't think Republicans want those kind of contemptible comments to define their party. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2009] Reference
Here's a kind of contemptible postscript to the whole Bill-made-money-on-Sept. 11 saga we posted on below. From Wordnik.com. [Drudge Kept Pushing False Attack On Bill Clinton 12 Hours After It Had Been Debunked] Reference
Mr Buthelezi said he found it "contemptible" for Mr Mankahlana to threaten him with taking away the Home Affairs portfolio and of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Look at the kind of contemptible person she grew to be. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism Magazine (CapMag.com)] Reference
Turnbull took the bait, calling Tanner's remarks "contemptible". From Wordnik.com. [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference
M. Jodi Rell called AIG's claims "contemptible" and branded the bonus payments as an. From Wordnik.com. [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference
We deliberately call the state of mind "contemptible," because, if a matter is worth fighting for. From Wordnik.com. [In the Track of the Troops] Reference
Indeed, whenever Austria relied solely on her own troops she was always beaten, even by the "contemptible" Serbians. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty] Reference
In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 44: Malachias The Challoner Revision] Reference
How contemptible our sorrow since it can be thus assuaged!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Fountainhead makes that parasitic existence look contemptible. From Wordnik.com. [Atlas Hugged] Reference
The tax-cut document itself is a contemptible piece of consumer fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Tax Cuts: Who Will Get What] Reference
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts] Reference
To the right, he is an enigmatic, contemptible and, to some, even charming figure. From Wordnik.com. [Confounding The Right] Reference
"Wasn't it contemptible of him?" she asked, her fate flushing at the recollection of the ride. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
It would be a contemptible cowardice to fail in this duty, and more, it would be an imprudence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It will be acknowledged, then, that a man possesses no very contemptible power who can flatter skillfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
It is the interest of the freedom fighters to have a contemptible and tyrannical regime as their opponent. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Humble employments are held in contempt, and humble powers are everywhere making high employments contemptible. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Discourse is smothered beneath the presumption that an opponent's motives are obvious and obviously contemptible. From Wordnik.com. [A Trickle-Down Culture] Reference
(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible). From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
Though he had long ago lost faith in his father, yet he had not thought he would be so contemptible as this showed him to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Ptolemy Evergetes was king, and continuing there a long time, I found there books left, of no small nor contemptible learning. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision] Reference
They are, one and all, a dreary, contemptible lot, middle-class Midwesterners of the sort more often met in fiction than in life. From Wordnik.com. [Books: The Emperor's New Prada?] Reference
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