Sentence examples for be contemptible from inspiring English sources

But it would still be contemptible.

The most abused of all movie genres, romantic comedy nowadays gets a pass just by managing not to be contemptible.

The understatement is comically revealing; in his heart, Rowland would expect anything written by his students to be contemptible.

We took it for granted at that age that 'they' would either get it or be contemptible for not getting it".

While the nexus of the two may be contemptible, politics and criminality are not mutually exclusive: as one infamous Blackberry message stated: "Fuck the feds we will send them back with OUR riot … we don't need pussyhole feds to run the streets and put our brothers in jail so tool up, it's a free world so have fun running wild shopping".

Down below it may be contemptible".

The rapist Byron, the whoremonger Rochester and the Stalinist quasi-plagiarist Brecht were contemptible human beings, and yet I love their work, and have been changed and influenced by it often for the better.

It is contemptible to kill animals because we human beings can't figure out a bear safe trash bin.

If they are united in their sense of being contemptible, they have, moreover, an implacable solidarity against the sources of all that contempt.

In many ways, Day for Night is similar to Godard's Contempt, and Truffaut does admit the suspicion that cinema and especially Hollywood is contemptible: mendacious, infantilised and corrupt.

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