Sentence examples for considered contemptible from inspiring English sources

In Japan, shoes are considered contemptible, they always take off their shoes at the entrance to every home, both for themselves and for others," wrote one person.

If you accept this definition of satire, then the reason The New Yorker's cover seems to have fallen short is precisely that it brought out into open, respectable space an idea of the Obamas that is still, happily, considered contemptible.

If the country goes to war in North Korea, future historians will struggle to understand how we sleepwalked into Armageddon behind a man whose own cabinet considers him contemptible.

We considered Howard equally contemptible – often more so than her.

The first program was to have included works by Walter Braunfels, who was half Jewish, and Adolf Busch, who was not Jewish but considered the Nazis contemptible, refused their order to replace Jewish musicians in his string quartet and eventually left Germany.

These observations refer to their fares, not the man in the street whom they still consider the low, contemptible hound.

State-registered merchants, who were forced by law to wear white-colored clothes and pay high commercial taxes, were considered by the gentry as social parasites with a contemptible status.

The mother of one of his victims, who has not been identified, said in a statement: "It is utterly contemptible that he considers he should serve even one day less of the sentence he rightly deserved".

Likewise, by attacking Trump's every outrageous claim with such relish--in TV ads, tweets, and sarcastic, indignant, censorious, finger-wagging and arched-eyebrow-elevated speeches--we convey to his potential voters that we consider their real concerns to be as contemptible as the drip drip of ridiculous statements he makes.

This view is contemptible.

There are many philosophers who regard sport as trivial or, worse, contemptible.