Sentence examples for contemptible individual from inspiring English sources
Det Ch Insp Godfrey O'Toole called Oakes a "contemptible individual".
Dear Bernard-Henri Levy, We have rien in common except that we are both rather contemptible individuals.
"We have, as they say, nothing in common — except for one essential trait: we are both rather contemptible individuals".
"We have, as they say, nothing in common," writes Houellebecq mordantly at the outset, "except we are both rather contemptible individuals".
Mostly, though, in the course of this strangely compulsive, wildly self-absorbed exchange, which ultimately ran to these 300 pages, they dwelt on the trait that seemed to have most united them in the public mind: "We are," as Houellebecq acknowledges in his opening letter, "both rather contemptible individuals".
What sort of contemptible person are you?
In 2005, Whitlam called Kerr "a contemptible person".
While he thought the decision not to run the investigation was wrong, Paxman said in an email that it was "very unfair, and frankly not at all untypical, that the BBC has dumped all this on one individual [Rippon]." He said the BBC's behaviour was "contemptible".
Coleridge, denouncing "a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists", asked: "Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?" Dickens did much with Carlyle's despairing insight into cash payment as the "sole nexus" between human beings.
Purely contemptible psychiatric quackery.
