They lived in the woods all the time, with a contemptible appearance, their whole life in the woods.
That contemptible and repugnant "message" is what should be challenged and opposed, not the right to express it.
He did this in the hope that in this ugly and abject form, the book would seem contemptible in his eyes and his longing to read it would subside.
Will even this not show the country the contemptible and miserable expedients to which we are reduced at the present moment?
I consider their attitude mean, mercenary, shabby and, would almost use the word, contemptible.
What a mean, miserable and contemptible subterfuge it is after all.
I am thinking of the miserable, contemptible savings on school milk, for example, and the raising of the prices of school meals.
I think in this prticular case the kind of boycotting employed was of the most contemptible character.