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He found the figure of a master who could do nothing for himself contemptibly helpless.

As far as they were concerned he was contemptibly human.

"Shame on you who can speak thus contemptibly without embarrassment.

This is a time-tested movie con, but rarely has it been deployed so contemptibly.

Mostly he talks about his dreams of fame and fortune, many of which are "contemptibly childish."

Andrew realized he had been unmannerly and a contemptibly thoughtless host not to see the lady served before himself.

They had bows that were contemptibly small and held awkwardly cross ways, but which somehow propelled short arrows with incredible accuracy.

It appears that terrorists contemptibly attacked my America, killing my fellow citizens and destroying the twin towers.

"Sometimes he was contemptibly childish.

He deployed his finest company precisely because his trespassers seemed so contemptibly vul-nerable.

Amazing, isn't it, how contemptibly susceptible to FEAR the average reader must be!

Indeed, he was not merely indifferent, but often openly hostile to businessmen, whom he regarded as contemptibly timid and provincial.

They also know, And reason not contemptibly: With these Find pastime, and bear rule; thy realm is large.

But is that essentially right, and proper, and honourable, or is it contemptibly mean and selfish?

Some scorn lilyturf for the same reason they scorn impatiens: overuse has made it contemptibly familiar.

He is contemptibly wrong to quarrel with Mr. Vacco's position that sexual orientation has no relevance to the job's qualifications.

The young idealists grouping around Nikolai Stankevich, however, dismissed his work as contemptibly lacking in ideas.

Our detailed knowledge is so contemptibly minute, that it is hardly worth reference, save that our shame may spur us to increased endeavour.

He does naturally admire his wit that wears gold lace, or tissue: stabs any man that speaks more contemptibly of the scholar than he.

An arrogant yuppie character through and through, Daryl even screams insults about what he presumes is Craig's contemptibly small salary.

Don Juan said that all the apprentices, including himself, had never been in total agreement about anything except that Tulio was a contemptibly arrogant little man.

FOR someone who composed one of the world's best-known musical scores (the contemptibly familiar "Four Seasons"), Antonio Vivaldi is a surprisingly little known composer.

A few were contemptibly crude and ill-constructed, but most represented the inspired toil of armies of ingenious artisans, and there was actually a handful of masterworks.

No, rather, whoever killed Nicholas Faintree had first robbed the body of Giles, and went to his ambush wearing the dagger he had contemptibly stolen."

The waiter brought me cheese, indeed, but cheese cut up into contemptibly small pieces; and it is the awful fact that, instead of Christian bread, he brought me biscuits.