Contemptible

Examples

• I thought our life here was contemptible. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Moreover, Egypt was a part of the Turkish empire, by no means a contemptible power in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Harriet's claims to marry well are not so contemptible as you represent them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I forced back the contemptible tears that were no relief to ME, and that only distressed HER, and reasoned and pleaded as calmly as I could. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They think themselves generous if they give our children a five-pound note, and us contemptible if we are without one. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• However, the king treated him with tenderness, as a well-meaning man, but of a low contemptible understanding. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You will find very little to repay you for your trouble in this contemptible _thing_, sir,' replied Slurk, bestowing a Satanic frown on Pott. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Wy don't you give in, and tell the Chancellorship that you're wery sorry for makin' his court contemptible, and you won't do so no more? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Why had he not stayed among the crowd of whom she asked nothing--but only prayed that they might be less contemptible? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Treasure-trove was, in these times, considered as no contemptible part of the revenue of the greatest sovereigns in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I had a contemptible fool for a husband. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a contemptible crime then and a dangerous crime, and she had shared in it, and it was associated with the vestry of the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• By being contemptible we set men's minds, to the tune of contempt. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Might, could, would--they are contemptible auxiliaries. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This kind of fort, however contemptible, is a sufficient defence against Indians who had no cannon. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I can't tell him to his face that he is the most contemptible of living creatures, after that! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For Gerald came down like a sledge-hammer with his assertions, anything the little German said was merely contemptible rubbish. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Does it not strike you, Mr. Yorke, that for a mere penniless adventurer to aspire to a rich woman's hand is presumptuous--contemptible? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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