Example sentences for: contemptible

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

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

  • If gambling were the grim scourge portrayed by its opponents, it would not have gone from a contemptible vice to an innocent diversion in a single generation.

  • Blumenthal's contemptible insinuations are a reminder that there is nearly always something provincial and self-serving about the response of American intellectuals to Whittaker Chambers."

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

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


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