All 8 Uses of
contemptible
in
The Fountainhead
- It would be much more interesting if you said that the Wynand papers are a contemptible dump heap of yellow journalism and all their writers put together aren't worth two bits.†
Chpt 1.10contemptible = deserving no respect (worthless or of bad quality)
- The kindliness was so great that it made their love seem small and mean, because only something contemptible could evoke such immensity of compassion.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- He realized that it could mean one of two things: either Wynand had surrendered respectfully to the prestige of his name—or Wynand considered him too contemptible to be worth restraining.†
Chpt 2.9
- The boss you work for may have ideals, but he has to beg money and take orders from many contemptible people.†
Chpt 3.1
- The Banner is a contemptible paper, isn't it?†
Chpt 3.3
- "I'm ashamed of you, Mitch," Toohey repeated sternly, "for comparing yourself to a man as contemptible as Gail Wynand."†
Chpt 4.6
- Wynand stood in the middle of the room, saying: "All right, it was contemptible—the whole career of the Banner.†
Chpt 4.13
- —once, a doctor put the ends of his stethoscope into my ears and let me hear my own heartbeats—it sounded just like this—he said I was a healthy animal and good for many years—for many...years..."I have foisted upon my readers a contemptible blackguard whose spiritual stature is my only excuse.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
very bad (deserving no respect)