Sentence examples for appear contemptible from inspiring English sources
She charged that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects.
And, although LaBute is clearly putting in a plea for the average-looking, morally decent guy like Greg, you feel he does this only by making all the other characters appear, at various times, contemptible.
Moore confesses that "I am fully aware of how paradoxical this theory must appear, and even how contemptible" (ibid., para. 14).
People whom Americans view as admirable whistleblowers appear to Russians raised in a country with a long history of oppressive government and paid informers as contemptible snitches.
Of the many moral issues that have beset Americans since November, one of the most nagging is that of the once beloved relative who appears at the Thanksgiving table spouting contemptible ideas.
http://www.theclotheshavenoemperor.com/PAUL SLANSKY is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where his quizzes skewering the beyond contemptible Bush "presidency" have been appearing since the 2000 election was stolen.
It makes such writing seem slightly contemptible, a kind of sad and futile indulgence.
Such exaltation of style and indifference to matter is contemptible, and, insofar as his purpose in his system of education appears to have been to train others to a similar facility, he can hardly escape the censure he accorded to other rhetorical schools.
It's contemptible.Yikes.Yikes
It's the contemptible fleecing the contemptible.
