Slime of the gutter, contemptibleold age unashamed, human pitch whose very touch is a loathing, a repulsion, a defilement.
It was a petty trick, mean and contemptible, but had the King not played a still more mean and contemptible trick on him?
To think he should have lowered himself and weakened his position so, as to write to the girl who was soon to be the wife of that contemptible puppy!
Could she really care for thatcontemptible scoundrel?
Rather we should be inclined to call it the meanest and most contemptible abuse of man’s superior powers.
Perhaps I can stay on board the American ship," he said to himself, "and not be compelled to revisit Santiago until I can do so as an honest fighter, instead of as a contemptible spy.
It meant more to him that Hildegarde von Essen was wholly contemptible than that he had it within his power to thwart the plot calculated to destroy the thing his country needed most.
They're fit for nothin' but dress, poor contemptible critters.
Acting in a wrong and contemptiblemanner because of our fear, is cowardice.
They were a wild and contemptible race, and at enmity with every one.
However, dread of the penalties maketh people desist only outwardly from committing vile and contemptible deeds, while that which guardeth and restraineth man both outwardly and inwardly hath been and still is the fear of God.
If French's little Army is contemptible, it would seem clear that all the skill and valour of the German Army had better not be concentrated on it, but on the larger and less contemptible allies.
That Crown Prince was the very opposite to his truculent son and that contemptible blackguard, his son's son.
If I thought that there was anything here of which he would approve, I should put on my gardening boots and trample it as much out of existence as our relations are with those contemptible counts and all their race.
Jonson here escaped his usual pitfall of the unsympathetic, for the vices and follies he satirises are not loathsome, only contemptible at worst, and not always that.
Why, nothing could hire you, when in your right mind, to make such a ludicrous and contemptible exhibition of yourself.
It showed me as nothing else could have done what a mean, unworthy, contemptible thing it is to nurse a feeling of hate or revenge toward a fellow-being.
The success of Chatterton's forgeries and of the far more contemptible forgeries of Ireland showed that people had begun to love the old poetry well, though not wisely.
Nothing can be more contemptible than the regular military resistance which Spain offers to an invader; nothing more formidable than the energy which she puts forth when her regular military resistance has been beaten down.
He would infallibly have made his hero as contemptible as he has made himself, had not his hero really possessed some moral and intellectual qualities of a very high order.
At present, however contemptible a poem or a novel may be, there is not the least difficulty in procuring favourable notices of it from all sorts of publications, daily, weekly, and monthly.
However contemptible its present mouthpiece, that was the truth.
Perhaps some day he would show her that he was not so utterly contemptible as.
Well, I think you are a contemptible coward, Gentles," I said warmly.
A terrible spasm cut my heart as I realised the contemptible tone and unparalleled shamelessness of their raging ignorance regarding my own name and work.
The son of Orestes assumed and disgraced the names of Romulus Augustus; but the first was corrupted into Momyllus, by the Greeks, and the second has been changed by the Latins into the contemptible diminutive Augustulus.
I need hardly say that this is not only a most contemptible trick, as I have already said, but a serious blow at the principles of fair play and justice which should regulate the winning of prizes in this school.
It was contemptible as that of the parson to whom the church is a profession!
He is a contemptible workman who thinks of his claims before his duties, of his poor wages instead of his undertaken work.
A man is indeed contemptiblewho is not ready to work; but not to be contemptible is hardly to be honorable.
She felt that she could have tolerated in her husband any vice with less effort than that one vice which was specially his, that vice so contemptible and odious, so destructive of every noble and generous sentiment.
She imagined that nothing was stronger than common sense; she had small suspicion that in their noblest hours men and women have invariably despised common sense, and trampled it underfoot as the most contemptible of human attributes.
You are a mean, contemptible wretch: the base hireling of a baser villain.
Death, I felt was too honourable a punishment for such a contemptible villain.
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