It is contemptibly small compared with our seventy millions of people.
And besides, this little fortune had come to seem contemptibly inadequate.
The temptation simply and crudely to give in, bundle down the pulpit stairs and bolt, was contemptibly great.
Hence Theresa, and all which pertained to her, even her follies, appeared to him of contemptibly small moment compared with the developments for which those follies might be held accidentally responsible.
Yet the leading articles, though inserted, as it should seem, only in the absence of more attractive matter, are by no means contemptibly written.
The English version is contemptibly bad, I need hardly say that the Paphian side is Connaught, and the Salaminian side Leinster.
Speaking lightly or contemptibly of one another, either to themselves or to others in their absence, as few men can bear patiently to be despised by the slighting carriages of their brethren.
When the ignorant see here a sect and there a sect, and hear them condemning one another, it teacheth them to contemn them all, and think contemptibly of piety itself; but concord layeth an awe upon them.
Though he is my uncle and your husband, there's one thing I can't help saying: It is a contemptibly mean thing not only to use all his own earnings for drink, but to try to get hold of what little I get for the same purpose.
You are the most contemptibly mean fellow I ever met, and I am heartily sorry there is any relationship between us.
I didn't suppose any boy could be so contemptibly mean," he reflected as his glance followed the boat, which gradually grew smaller and smaller as it drew near the mainland.
They appeared to her so absurdly inadequate, so contemptibly divorced from the primary interests of existence.
It is contemptibly futile, and therefore conspicuously in keeping with the rest, to have taken all this trouble about dying only, in the end, to sneak back.
