Examples of contemptible

• 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.