Sentence examples for the contemptible from inspiring English sources

It's the contemptible fleecing the contemptible.

To find beauty in the ordinary, the abandoned and even the contemptible is not new.

Two of the "confessions" made by guards referred to in their S-21 files as "the Contemptible Met" and "the Contemptible Chhaan", outline a baroque conspiracy involving many other people.

Sharon went into a televised news conference to denounce "the contemptible libel concocted to bring down and replace the government".

"The contemptible end to this 'judicial process' leaves Iran's senior leaders with an obligation to right this grievous wrong.

But while the symbolism of a children's holiday may be of limited consequence, the contemptible racial attitudes it has exposed are not.

Disability campaigners are quite right that in one sense the Paralympic Games sets up a dangerous polarity between the "superhuman" heroes on the one hand, and the "feckless, contemptible scroungers", as portrayed by the tabloids, on the other.

"Of all the casting stunts in recent Broadway infamy, the hiring of Kathie Lee Gifford for a Stephen Sondheim revue would seem to catapult the merely cynical into the legends of the outright contemptible," she wrote.

The truly contemptible part of the nails ritual comes at the end, at what those who have mastered the wet-toed waddle call drying stations.

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.

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