Sentence examples for contemptible manner from inspiring English sources
As a society, we have got used to treating women in the most despicable and contemptible manner.
The ruling, and Yale's response produced a mixed reaction from some of Fenn's colleagues and former students, who wrote a letter to the Yale Daily News stating, ""Vindicating the Yale patent policy" is a poor excuse for treating a Nobel Laureate with a 68-year association with and dedicated service to the University, in such a contemptible manner".
"It is true he was very ingenious in mechanics, but it is also well known he was extremely illiterate, and his jokes and sarcasms on the Bible, with which his conversation abounded, shewed the most contemptible ignorance of eastern history and manners, and indeed of every thing".
"Councillor Town", the fictional prosecutor, summarised these complaints in saying, "The whole Book is a Heap of sad Stuff, Dulness, and Nonsense; that it contains no Wit, Humour, Knowledge of human Nature, or of the World; indeed, that the Fable, moral Character, Manners, Sentiments, and Diction, are all alike bad and contemptible".
Maitland was attacked by "the horrible Horace Round, who in controversy had the manners of a ferret," and his chair later went to "his contemptible successor Holdsworth".
Cheap fashion means two things: inexpensive, yes, but also contemptible.
Purely contemptible psychiatric quackery.
It's contemptible.Yikes.Yikes
It's the contemptible fleecing the contemptible.
Not everyone is contemptible.
