Once he'd had an honourable trade; now he was beneath contempt.

He is beneath contempt no matter what I call him.

"But then he shouted, 'You are beneath contempt,' and walked out of his office."

On the other hand, a language that *cannot* be used to write its own compiler is beneath contempt.

The minor mishap at the end, clearly enough, was beneath contempt.

Some of her women do not seem at all beneath contempt.

The idea of having a purpose at all is beneath contempt.

That attitude is no patronizing as to be beneath contempt.

His answers - if you could call them that - to Balls were beneath contempt.

He either thought the question beneath contempt, or had no answer for it.