Sentence examples for more contemptible from inspiring English sources

"One-hit wonder" is one of the more contemptible phrases in the English language.

They said he had done it to make Johnson's electoral conniving seem even more contemptible than it was.

"Just explain to me why it is more contemptible to be paid by an Italian jewellery firm than by HarperCollins?

The scholar-warrior may lapse into a far more contemptible figure: the scholar for hire, who sells his name and his title for cash.

But, in the social hierarchy of school, this host of miseries was overlooked in favor of a much more contemptible indignity: I wanted to be a writer.

To mess those releases up, whether through indifference or calculation or vindictiveness, is among the more contemptible acts I've observed distributors engage in in recent memory.

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.

With a few exceptions (and there are a few), the behavior of Republican politicians and conservative pundits in this whole ghastly affair grows ever more disgusting and contemptible.

Except for a slimy Portuguese slave trader, no character in the novel is wholly evil, and even he's more weak and contemptible than mustache-twirlingly villainous.

We considered Howard equally contemptible – often more so than her.

Although big ideas are meant to go from controversial to celebrated, in truth they more often go from contemptible to commonplace.