8.31pm BST 42 min: Typically contemptible behaviour from one of the most obnoxious clowns in world football: Pepe blocks a cross with his head and then rolls around the ground like a three-year-old who's been denied an ice cream.
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".
Or one may regard one's social identities as oppressive (if, say, one's identity is cast by society as evil, contemptible, or disgusting), yet see one's fate as tied with the groups with which one is identified, and commit oneself to collective action with other members of those groups to overcome that oppression.
Neither Sven the man nor his professional legacy are nearly so one-dimensionally contemptible as is currently being made out by tabloids and broadsheets alike.
"The notion that James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights so that racists and sociopaths and madmen could slaughter innocent men, women, and children with assault weapons or handguns is one the most contemptible notions that an irresponsible minority has ever crammed down the throats of its potential victims.
So whatever one's view on sovereignty versus prosperity, one is not, by definition, contemptible because one holds a different view on it to someone else.
"One-hit wonder" is one of the more contemptible phrases in the English language.
On the television show "At the Movies" the film critic Gene Siskel called the movie one of the "most contemptible" films he'd ever seen.
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.
