His first novel, Djadi Korbannja "Perempoean Hina" (The Victim of a "Contemptible Woman"), was published in 1924.
The answer will come that it is because they are bad for people, and that anyway consuming narcotics or hallucinogens is a contemptible resource for finding release or getting a high, for making life more colourful or more bearable.
He certainly wrote his diaries for publication, to fulfil "in part, at least, a contemptible, vain desire for immortality", which he probably achieved.
These Europeans, in particular anti-Communist heroes of the stature of Mr. Havel and Mr. Walesa, can find dreaded signposts for a newly "realist" America — in this context, a contemptible word meaning willingness for compromise at democracy's expense — when the United States waters down the description of its essential role in winning the Cold War and ending the Soviet domination of their region.
Readers, too, share some culpability for driving reporters down such a contemptible path, through their continued subscriptions and consumption of those dubious tabloids.
To the officers on the receiving end, already tired and dissatisfied, this was seen as a "contemptible exhibition" for a senior officer to make.
In response, a spokesperson for Corbyn called the comments "a contemptible and desperate slur which demeans [Cameron's] office".
It was a contemptible piece of cheating for which the offending Turkish player was sent off, and Rivaldo was later fined for "simulation".
We believe the war on drugs is a contemptible failure designed to promulgate huge budgets for the law enforcement and prison industries.
