What a repulsive, contemptible thing it is!
"Actors portraying us do contemptible things we never did, and say things we neither said nor believed," the letter read.
Well," said he, "this is the most contemptible thing I ever heard of on the part of the owners of a public passenger ship.
The main thing is, you did that contemptible thing.
He has chosen things low and contemptible, mere nothings, to overthrow the existing order.
The contemptible thing opened again behind Captain Kirk.
There was our man Tommy Noodles, who asked that his last name not be used because among his circle of acquaintances, vulnerability is a contemptible thing.
What a contemptible thing to say!
War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
