contemptible literary

Of course not, because then you really would be contemptible.

The room was anything but contemptible, as he saw at once.

And because he was so contemptible, she expected him to agree.

Tom, on the other hand, is a less obviously contemptible case.

There was something to respect, even in this contemptible man.

Yet how could she do the contemptible things Victoria wanted of her?

It seemed to him too contemptible for hot anger even.

"And yet he seems not so contemptible but that you are afraid to attack him."

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

There, he thought, was the most contemptible representative of the species.

She saw that it had been contemptible to try to resist.

And even more contemptible than that is my making this remark now.

It was a contemptible trick, something that only I would do.

And his state of mind appeared to me the most contemptible I had ever encountered.

"And if you were not such a contemptible little sneak, I'd do more than that!"

But those eight make every other gun you have ever seen look ridiculous and contemptible.

I thought he was contemptible, but we of course were trained to control our faces.

Misuse of power, even in so small a thing, is contemptible.

Indeed, he began to think his behaviour was rather contemptible.

It would be contemptible to lose to these inferior people.

"My darling, it is too contemptible to be thought of."

Perhaps it was because he played the flute, which I have always thought contemptible in a man.

In his survey of the American scene, he finds much that is contemptible.

He made a little sneer as if it had all been contemptible.

Their results are contemptible, we must admit; but only so because empirical.