Sentence examples for a contemptible thing from inspiring English sources

"Oh, Phil, it was a rotten, a contemptible thing to do, but I had to convince you I was a woman.

There was our man Tommy Noodles, who asked that his last name not be used because among his circle of acquaintances, vulnerability is a contemptible thing.

The same motive prompts some to seek perverted knowledge through magical practices.... [T]he many minute, contemptible things that solicit our curiosity each day are beyond counting.... [W]hen I am sitting at home, why does a lizard catching flies, or a spider binding them when they blunder into its web, often have me gazing intently?

The only thing necessary for Joseph Seed to take over was for good men to do nothing, and in the end "the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle". Far Cry 5's Montana is truly beautiful, just like the real thing.

For one thing, it was squandering more than $45 million to pass Proposition 16, a contemptible 2010 ballot measure PG&E; cooked up in an effort to hobble municipal power agencies that would compete for its customers.

It's a contemptible tactic.

As we all know, young workers are a contemptible bunch.

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

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

Still, Augie had sized me up as a contemptible case: an inferior driver.

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