Example sentences for: contemptible

How can you use “contemptible” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rocker isn't insane; he's a contemptible (albeit despicable) racist.

  • "He said, 'Senator McCarthy is a tax-dodging, character-assassinating, racetrack-gambling, complete and contemptible liar.

  • George Will, in the LAT , Michael Kelly in the WP , a NYT op-ed by a law professor and the Post 's lead editorial all question whether such laws further the cause of tolerance and suggest that they represent a threat to the sanctity of prote cted, even if contemptible, personal thought and speech.

  • "Clinton's behavior has been contemptible throughout, from his initial offences, to his legalistic evasions, to his unbearably mawkish and snivelling apologies," the paper said.

  • I think he means "contemptible," but you get the idea.


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