Sentence examples for a contemptible one from inspiring English sources

But Stanton is a marginal figure here and, to most of the other characters, a contemptible one.

Yet the talent to please is by no means a contemptible one.

The 18th century statesman and political philosopher did, however, write something along similar lines: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle," he noted in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

He finds Obama's position "dismaying" and even quotes British political philosopher Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle".

In the margins of one book, Macaulay called it "a contemptible heap of rant & twaddle".

But this particular Russia, the one we have inherited, is a contemptible mess – and if we don't plunder it, someone else will.

To many in India the cause of all this killing seemed straightforward enough: a peace initiative last week by one militant group has been deemed a contemptible betrayal by others, requiring sabotage.

In those days, you didn't press charges – presumably no one would believe you, and those that did would think you were a contemptible weakling and tell-tale.

It's a contemptible tactic.

"Is driving a taxi a contemptible occupation?" "No".

A contemptible dissent in the Ninth Circuit decision, by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, summed up a pernicious stereotype.