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.

  • Light, inexpensive, and contemptible, the cell phone inspires stories, sneers, and songs, except for the songs.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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