The son of a doctor who helped pioneer the treatment of HIV, he was clearly upset at Nigel Farage's contemptible pre-election attempt to tap into resentment of foreign-born HIV-positive patients.
I could never have imagined that freezing walks and scandalous vets' bills would one day feel like no trouble at all To the non-dog owner, I know how contemptible all this might sound.
The manager has been exposed to security threats recently and Peat said: "I admire Neil's courage in handling the abhorrent and contemptible behaviour to which he has been subjected and put on record my condemnation of such cowardly acts.
Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human condition – even as a positive and useful experience.
The anti-politics mood is rising, and its rivals' countermeasures have been contemptible.
The whole of American government, he says, is corrupt and contemptible; the capital suffers a "total lack of honesty and integrity".
It was a contemptible televised circus in which the politics of race conspired with police and judicial incompetence to let a murder go unpunished.
Any action would probably take place well after election day.Still, this is pretty contemptible stuff, even if it dances just within the bounds of the law.
But while the symbolism of a children's holiday may be of limited consequence, the contemptible racial attitudes it has exposed are not.
His praise long ago for Mussolini was indeed contemptible, but if there is such a thing as redemption in politics Mr Fini deserves his chance.
This was not unreasonable; but the threatening way it negotiated, the craven way England and Australia accommodated it, and the resulting impoverishment of Pakistan, New Zealand and other poorer cricket nations were contemptible.
