Example sentences for: contemptible

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

  • "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.

  • It was still there, but the definition had been cleansed of its contemptible meaning and made tolerably benign.

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

  • But the screenplay about Nicaragua presented these elements as a simple Marxist fable--the contemptible elite kidnap victims, the loathsome U.S. imperialists, the heroic revolutionary kidnappers.

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


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