Sample Sentences for
contemptible
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    Inside, I felt small and contemptible, abandoned.  (source)
    contemptible = unworthy of respect
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    Henryk's life was a hard one. He had chosen it himself and had no intention of changing it, believing that it would be contemptible to live in any other way.  (source)
    contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
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    The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act.  (source)
    contemptible = very bad
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    ...are the most contemptible, cowardly, and vile breed of criminals,  (source)
    contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
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    Here is idolatry even without a mask: And he who can calmly hear, and digest such doctrine, hath forfeited his claim to rationality an apostate from the order of manhood; and ought to be considered as one, who hath not only given up the proper dignity of man, but sunk himself beneath the rank of animals, and contemptibly crawl through the world like a worm.†  (source)
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    Lolla-Wossiky was so contemptible it made Hooch sick.  (source)
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    Sometimes he was contemptibly childish.†  (source)
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    I stare across my room at the rose wallpaper, the eyelet curtains, the yellowing photographs so familiar they are nearly contemptible.  (source)
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    Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.†  (source)
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    Stupid, hypocritical, cruel--oh, contemptible!  (source)
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    But is that essentially right, and proper, and honourable, or is it contemptibly mean and selfish?†  (source)
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    Nothing would have been more nonsensical and, above all, more pointless and contemptible.  (source)
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    The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus—the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.†  (source)
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