To represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; disparage: a person who belittled our efforts to do the job right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

Absolutely absurd, and contemptibly spineless iftrue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Here’s Something Depressing:] Reference

That is a contemptibly exploitative form of hypocrisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Smolin, distorting his big mouth contemptibly, would say to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference

How contemptibly low is that commerce in which mind has no share!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Hast thou not seen, in the above, how contemptibly she treats me? —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Definition: Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful; cowardly.    From Wordnik.com.  [word of the week #14] Reference

Obama ran on exactly what he contemptibly disparaged, over and over, for the people of Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Dramatic advances in public attitudes are sweeping Iraq..."] Reference

But, ah! it is all a contemptibly low business; we had better quit talking about our neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference

If Jenn wants to be treated with anything other than contempt, she should act less contemptibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap] Reference

He deployed his finest company precisely because his trespassers seemed so contemptibly vul-nerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

Stevie determined he wouldn't go in of his own accord -- he said Dave had been "too contemptibly mean.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Portion] Reference

He had another grief at the same time, that is the poignant consciousness of having acted contemptibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Possessed] Reference

I am amazed that anyone who admires Mayer would call attention to his authorship of this contemptibly silly article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unfriendly Persuasion] Reference

He has sometimes written very contemptibly; his lines on Hobbes, the carrier, for example, and his versions of Psalms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference

Not a few of the precious citizens fired at our troops from the windows, and acted as contemptibly and dastardly as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

Mark Peters, writing over at the Oxford University Press blog, offers up an essay on what he considers contemptibly obscure words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vilipendious Dastardlings and Balatronic Yazzihampers] Reference

I'd say that, with a few honorable exceptions, most of what used to be known as the Western Alliance is contemptibly less than vigorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch extending Uruzgan combat mission--but ending "leading role" in 2010] Reference

I have more than once repented that I did not marry him myself; and were he but one degree less contemptibly weak I certainly should: but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Susan] Reference

Germans heavy, dull fellows, explode many of their fashions; they as contemptibly think of us; Spaniards laugh at all, and all again at them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Once more, to cavil at this would be contemptibly easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

He imagines he flatters me when he speaks contemptibly of himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

It is contemptibly small compared with our seventy millions of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Essays] Reference

And besides, this little fortune had come to seem contemptibly inadequate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

What a contemptibly little-minded and insignificant person she must think me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Egg and Other Stories] Reference

The English version is contemptibly bad, I need hardly say that the Paphian side is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference

They appeared to her so absurdly inadequate, so contemptibly divorced from the primary interests of existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

And oh, the refreshment there is in dealing with characters either contemptibly beneath us or supernaturally above!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

In these proud and pretentious surroundings he felt contemptibly guilty -- and dazed wonder at his own inexplicable folly and weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain of Dust] Reference

It is written in the most contemptibly factious spirit of prejudice against the sufferers; it is unworthy of a philosopher and of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference

And then comes the shortest, I think, of all the stories in the one and forty volumes; the silliest as a composition; the most contemptibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference