How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
In politics nothing is contemptible.
When I look upon seamen men of science and philosophers man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
Only the contemptible fear contempt.