The phrase "contemptible of" is not a correct part of a sentence.
"Contemptible" is an adjective meaning "deserving contempt or scorn" and can be used alone or accompanied by a noun, but it cannot be followed by the preposition "of". For example, you could say: "The politician's lies were contemptible." You could not say: "The politician's lies were contemptible of."
"He was one of the bitterest and most contemptible of our enemies," Mr. Kimche said.
People say that I'm like Pop that way, that I'll get this expression on my face, as if whatever you're saying or doing is this crime, and that for you not to desist would be the most contemptible of acts.
It seems that Tinie had recently come to the defense of the horse, and in a very lengthy letter (shown below) Ruskin attempted to convince her that "the horse is the most contemptible of animals".
The Rugby Football Union's chief disciplinary officer, Jeff Blackett, is a supporter of the hardline stance, regarding deliberate gouging as one of the most contemptible acts of foul play in the game.
Experience — very natural…But nothing constructive at bottom, only acceptance really, a piddling contemptible acceptance of the state of affairs that flatters one into feeling thus noble or useful!
When I want to find an example of a naturally noble creature, I must think of the Italian peasants, the artisans, the very simple people, while the higher you go in Italian society... ..... and as he lifted his pipe a little, it became a contemptible specimen of a class of Italians he does not admire.
When I want to find an example of a naturally noble creature, I must think of the Italian peasants, the artisans, the very simple people, while the higher you go in Italian society...". and as he lifted his pipe a little, it became a contemptible specimen of a class of Italians he does not admire.
Callicles' famous diatribe includes an indictment of philosophy as a childish occupation that, if pursued past youth, interferes with the manly pursuit of power, fosters contemptible ignorance of how the real political world works, and renders its possessor effeminate and defenseless.
Its systematic disemboweling of the indigenous culture of Tibet, which included mass murder and the destruction of thousands of unique monasteries, is the most extreme and contemptible example of this.
The gesture of "direct action" is the most contemptible element of his nihilism.
"In contrast to Victorian medical moralizing, which linked nervousness to a contemptible lack of will and a hereditarian scheme of degeneration, there is notably little condemnation of the nervous patient in the 1700s," Micale notes.
