Sentence examples for make it contemptible from inspiring English sources

To adapt Disraeli's remark about the body politic as a whole, make monarchy cheap and you make it contemptible..

Racism, Mr. Ford argues, has not disappeared, but the civil rights movement has made it contemptible in the eyes of most Americans.

Mr. Powell said that the world, and particularly Myanmar's Asian neighbors, must make it clear "that its actions are contemptible and violate Burma's international human rights obligations".

But that makes it no less contemptible.

That makes it all the more cruel and contemptible that "traditionalists" like Lord Carey demand that homosexual Christians live up to stricter standards than straight ones.

Its recent incorporation of a historical thesaurus makes it even more valuable: how else would I learn that early 17th-century terms for a contemptible person include wormling and shag-rag?

Barring Wilders is tantamount to buckling to implicit blackmail by a small gang of contemptibles – actually, to fear of blackmail, not even to the actual thing – and that makes it pusillanimous in the furthest degree.

She charged that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects.

"It is only poverty which makes celibacy contemptible," Emma Gwyneth Paltroww) patiently explains to her friend Harriet (Toni Collette), who therefore will be needing a husband.

Emma has vowed never to marry, and when she and her protegé, the cuddly Harriet Smith, who falls in love all the time, talk of the possibility of Emma's being an old maid Emma quiets Harriet's fears with this: "It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public.

Linda hated Shillington; she said she found it "contemptible".