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In colloquial usage, contempt usually refers to either the act of despising, or having a general lack of respect for something. This set of emotions generally...

General French's contemptible little army". Hence, in later years, the survivors of the 1914 army dubbed themselves "The Old Contemptibles". No evidence...

'penis' as well as a pejorative term used to refer to a despicable or contemptible individual. It is generally considered offensive, though in the past...

Look up contempt or contemptible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contempt is an intense feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior...

who are considered to be rude, abrasive, inconsiderate, or otherwise contemptible. In this context, it can be used interchangeably with jerk, and can also...

person (regardless of gender) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or a contemptible man in Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, New Zealand and sometimes...

value or quality, trivial and usually boastful or inaccurate talk or a contemptible person. It could also be used to refer to any other noun in general or...

pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word came into the English language from Yiddish...

BBS, demosceners, and online gaming users to anyone perceived to be contemptible. In general, the term has come to describe someone who is willfully ignorant...

sixth King of England after King John would be the 'Mouldwarp', a proud, contemptible and cowardly person, having a skin like a goat. According to the first...

person, the word functions as an insult, implying that the individual is contemptible or worthless. Outside Jamaica, particularly beginning around 2019, bomboclat...

favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in...

Privately, a senior aide to the King confided to his diary: "A more contemptible, cowardly, selfish, unfeeling dog does not exist ... There have been...

designers all knew the truth, and many considered Teller the lowest, most contemptible kind of offender in the world of science, a stealer of credit".[new archival...

Title Role Notes 1970 Comedy Playhouse Josie Oakley Episode: "The Old Contemptible" 1970 The Doctors Di Pitt 4 episodes 1971 Long Voyage Out of War Agnes...

he was known as the accursed, the inauspicious, the arrogant and the contemptible. Toghrul started his service as a ghulam of Sultan Mahmud and by the...

restaurant in New Orleans; see Cajun cuisine Slang meaning dirty pig, swine, contemptible person; see Cultural references to pigs Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent...

critic Peter Crawley: "Whipp does a marvellous job of being likeably contemptible". Billington, Michael (17 September 2015). "F*ck the Polar Bears review...

establishment to underscore the heartlessness of the autocracy and the contemptible shallowness of the young tsar and his "German woman". Alexandra was extremely...

 2021 (2021-01-17) When an art gallery robbery leads to the death of the contemptible gallery manager, former Boston detective Jeff Jackson teams up with local...

They are also cited by Cornelius Tacitus as "...a nation by no means contemptible". Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier, The History of the Roman Emperors: From...

election fraud at the 2020 United States presidential election, as a "contemptible, treasonous, seditious assault on the stability of the country and its...

thought him stupid and frivolous; his third editor, Naber, found him contemptible. Historians have seen him as a 'pedant and a bore', his letters offering...

it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant. Stupid. Contemptible and despicable. Simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang....

Main Office. Observers of the trial found the defendants mediocre and contemptible. Although the list of defendants was finalized on 29 August, as late...

calling Wyatt the "Peoria Bummer," the newspaper categorized him with "contemptible loafers who impose on hard-working citizens", a "beggar" and "worse-than-tramps...

the Western Front in Lorraine & Alsace at Battlefields Europe 'That Contemptible Little Army' by E. Alexander Powell. The British Army Seen by an American...

a vulgar word for vulva and also an insulting term meaning a weak or contemptible individual. For this reason, Twatt remains a source of amusement to people...

and to show off the undaunted morale of the Marathas, Rajaram issued contemptible bounties which were deliberately small to his generals for capturing...

case of Nandira Patel's mystery boyfriend. To make things worse, the contemptible Cephas Buthelezi opens a rival agency and is intent on taking the ladies...

be pussies?" The line relies on double meanings of both dick (either "contemptible person" or "male genitalia") and pussy ("weak" or "female genitalia")...

blatherskite ("one who talks nonsense"), as Scots has the word skite ("contemptible person"). A word can become obsolete in its root form but remain current...

masterpiece". John Simon of National Review called Beverly Hills Cop "a truly contemptible film". Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were also negative, giving the film...

relates to the Kaiser supposedly referring to the British army as 'a contemptible little army'. The phrase was actually devised at the British War Office...

said in the Irish House of Commons on 23 January 1787: "The low and contemptible state of your magistracy is the cause of much evil, particularly in the...

Lonergan's Lobby Hero, having been impressed with his performance as a contemptible villain. Evans was mainly known for his live-action role as Steve Rogers...

23, 2015). "Tarantino Says He'll Never Work w/ Spike Lee, Calls Him Contemptible + Says He Has 2 More Films Before Retirement". IndieWire. Archived from...

British English and Irish English insult, used to refer to a stupid or contemptible person. The word originally meant a drunkard, but such usage is now rare...

nonetheless criticized Davis as being "peacock vain" and criticizing his "contemptible" treatment of women. It won an American Book Award in 1990. The audiobook...

the construction of a modern field boundary, writing: pernicious ... contemptible ... our venerable military causeway has been unmercifully torn up .....

I know that people inside Cambodia fear me. So when we drive out the contemptible Vietnamese and gain peace, I will retire if the comrades so desire. But...

Francis Davis, have criticized his treatment of women, describing it as "contemptible". In 2025, Reservoir Media acquired the rights to Davis's publishing...

members of the Senate. Though privately continuing to view Portugal contemptibly for its perceived atavistic foreign policy towards Africa, Kissinger...

world, compiled on the premise that all countries are ridiculous and contemptible" and found it "sophomoric, transgressive and intermittently brilliant...

certainly was not trying to praise Ford and didn't intend to minimize his contemptible antisemitism in any way." In November 2023, Greenblatt again praised...

between Farage and an unnamed source in which Farage spoke of Lowe as "contemptible" and his anger with Lowe's Daily Mail interview. In the messages, Farage...

may merely be overrated, disappointing, or dull. Down below it may be contemptible." Q's Danny Kelly observed: "Snoop Doggy Dogg's record is more or less...

salvation" and his "awfulness and quietness" to the "meagre lines and contemptible tortures of the Laocoön" and argued that "the grandeur of this treatment...

1967, because of what Hitchens called "Prime Minister Harold Wilson's contemptible support for the war in Vietnam". Under the influence of Peter Sedgwick...

later became subject to sodomy laws and became increasingly seen as contemptible. In the 17th century, intercrural sex was featured in several works of...

rebellion. By the end, the original orator is depicted as a cowardly and contemptible villain. Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo initially features Juan Preciado...

animated films for Neptune Film Company. His films include French's Contemptible Little Army, the second film in the "Bully Boy Series". Speed was born...

been classified as a "poetaster". As a prose writer, Pye was far from contemptible. He had a fancy for commentaries and summaries. Of all he wrote, his...

that "no man would have made his sex appear at once coarse, brutal, and contemptibly weak, at once disgusting and ridiculous" and concluded that "a possible...

with profiting from global events. Jilly is also used as a foil to the contemptible Oswald Danes; during the series each uses the other for their own ends...

silently settled that the divine utensil (the throne) should devolve on my contemptible person. I, knowing the feebleness of my virtue, at first felt much afraid...

First World War. He was the last known holder of the 1914 Star (the Old Contemptibles), the last known combatant to participate in the 1914 World War I Christmas...

on 13 October 1920, to parents Hugh Beith McCallum (Engineer and Old Contemptible) and Agnes Falconer Wood McCallum (née Walker). He was Educated at Allan...

on the other hand women have been made to suffer and to feel opposed contemptible and suspect by virtue of its existence". Children and adolescents spend...

Zettaizetsumei) 006. "To Kill with Love" (愛で殺したい, Ai de Koroshitai) 007. "A Contemptible Good-for-Nothing" (憎みきれないろくでなし, Nikumi Kirenai Rokude Nashi) 008. "Good...

little soft, too much interested in social graces, too much influenced by contemptible people such as businessmen, lawyers, and Jews. The southerners thought...

contempt for the media, describing it as "the most wretched, the most contemptible of all tyrannies". He was critical of the Danish public at the time,...

commercial taxes, were considered by the gentry as social parasites with a contemptible status. These were often petty shopkeepers of urban marketplaces; merchants...

showed Farage describing Lowe's behaviour as both "disgusting" and "contemptible"; Lowe responded by calling the process a "malicious witch hunt" against...

example, that a speaker who condemns some act as contemptible is really only saying, "I have contemptible feelings." By denying that values are real or that...

retainer to the press, merely to eke out the book; being, in fact, a most contemptible performance." The final two lines of the work seem to segue into Robin...

river. The discipline and tactics of the Vijayanagar army were deemed contemptible. They were spread out over an area extending some seventeen miles along...

yourself, as it is not to avenge an injury by violence. It is dastardly and contemptible in a wounded man to betray the name of his assailant, because if he recovers...

Thompson's behavior "inappropriate by a member of the bar, unprofessional and contemptible". Thompson later drew attention to the game's main character, a 15-year-old...

social discrimination in Korean society. The paekchŏng were seen as contemptible and polluted people that others feared and avoided meeting. Paekchŏng...

powerful performance from Anthony Hopkins. His Hitler is mad, often contemptible, but always understandable. Part of the problem, perhaps, is that the...

carriage – is this not one of the effluvia of big cities that allow contemptible women dressed in outfits purchased for the price of their female chastity...

divine revenge on the traitors' manhood). The pejorative term prick for a contemptible person is also usually used for men. In the popular jargon of many cultures...

Heaven, people do not regard life in this world as so worthless and contemptible that they leave it with pleasure and relief, and a railway accident is...

reported event, Congressman Barney Frank referred to the posters as "vile, contemptible nonsense." In March 2010, LaRouche Youth leader Kesha Rogers won the...

the world"), is first attested in print in 1865; the use to refer to a contemptible person is first attested in 1933. In the ninth chapter of his 1945 autobiography...

world, Arendt asserts, labor was contemptible not because it was what slaves did; rather, slaves were contemptible because they performed labor, a futile...

demonstrating his hatred of Stewart, branding him as "utterly fucking contemptible". Despite their mutual hatred, they are on occasion able to come to agreements...

by computer, hand-built by robots...Completely calculated, thoroughly contemptible, Asia is every bit as hollow, shallow and nasty as anyone had a right...

only because of traits and habits of Boswell's that Macaulay saw as contemptible: "Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated...

losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible." He likened the style of humour in Fawlty Towers to the representation...

way to refer to a woman". Random House defines it as "a despicable, contemptible or foolish man". Some feminists of the 1970s sought to eliminate disparaging...

Kommilitonen!), it announced that the "day of reckoning" had come for "the most contemptible tyrant our people has ever endured." "The dead of Stalingrad adjure us...

whom I knew; (indignantly) I despise a Dacoit! a robber! ('pajee!') contemptible! let him come before me! 'our Keea!' (what else!) In 1837, Buhram was...

a vulgar word for vulva and also an insulting term meaning a weak or contemptible individual. For this reason, Twatt remains a source of amusement to people...

1850, according to E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge portrays Yohannes as a contemptible character, "only tolerated because he belonged to the Solomonic line...

Cornelius Scipio. Salvito was, according to Plutarch and Suetonius, "a contemptible nobody", who was taken by Julius Caesar in 46 BC on his North African...

these doctrines, which were evidently inherited by Lokayata, were found contemptible and necessary to be refuted in the idealist, theist and religious literature...

alone." He rejected the notion of virtual representation, as "the most contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of man." Grenville responded to...

general officers led the British Army, ahead of a column formed of "Old Contemptibles", soldiers who had fought with the British Expeditionary Force since...

duped into mining for gold for crooked cult leader Kamaros. 54 17 "Les Contemptibles" Charlie Haskell Brian Herskowitz April 7, 1997 (1997-04-07) V0123 Troyes...

1997 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Lady Marie DeValle Episode: "Les Contemptibles" 1997–99 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Ephiny Episodes: "Prodigal...

('effrontery, gall'), nosh ('snack'), schlep ('drag'), schmuck ('an obnoxious, contemptible person', euphemism for 'penis'), and, depending on idiolect, hundreds...

"were destroyed by the boys pelting them at each other as unmeaning and contemptible trifles". No more than eight of the original coffins are known to exist...

character, who dominates the drawing rooms, is in sharp contrast to a contemptible debauch, who indulges in fornication, alcoholism, and hypocrisy. Other...

Nietzsche's anti-socialism and anti-nationalism (for Nietzsche, both equally contemptible mass herd movements of modernity) in his reading of The Will to Power...

(Persia) North and south kings 4 winds (Greece) North and South Kings A contemptible person of intrigue (pagan and papal Rome) North and south kings End times...

ministers "hired assassins" and "cowards" and said they were "guided by the contemptible Grishka [or Grigori] Rasputin!" The acting president Rodzianko ordered...

while the Northern Paiute had arrows but no spears. They were mean, contemptible, foolish, degraded cannibals, had red hair which they were excessively...

brother, who considers his honour impugned and resolves that instead of a contemptible percentage he will take all the money himself. The train sets off with...

'leda') leder leder joints (anatomy) the military service lumpen lumpen contemptible, lousy the moth malen malen ground, milled (past participle of 'mala')...

The exonym "Nawar" could be used sometimes offensively, denoting a contemptible and immoral lifestyle associating them with beggars, itinerants, and...

Another major character, Apurba, a member of Pather Dabi, described as a contemptible figure. Emotional and impressionable, Apurba grieves at the colonial...

of Sufism consists of rules about repentance from sin, the purging of contemptible qualities and evil traits of character, and adornment with virtues and...

obstacle in Tipu Sultan's attempt to conquer Travancore; he called it "the contemptible wall". Certain territorial disputes arose between Travancore and the...

market street with a stake through his private parts, because of a most contemptible dispute. ... [Coloman] was disturbed by this scandal, ... so he ordered ...

greatest of all writers and masters, although I think him utterly base, contemptible and odious for certain reasons which you know. In 1888, Acton wrote that...

used symbolically (as in Coriolanus 4.7.7) to indicate weakness or contemptibility. George Wyndham and Henry Charles Beeching are among the editors who...

Lomas, First Ypres, 1914, p. 84. Neillands, Robin (2005), The Old Contemptibles: The British Expeditionary Force, 1914, pp.318–9 Neillands, Robin (2005)...

suggestion that non-Christian voters are ignorant of morality when voting as "contemptible, arrogant and wicked." On August 26, 2006, Harris's campaign released...

attempting impossibilities in the case of so important a city with so contemptible a force, is conveyed in the first instance to Gregory, bishop of Theopolis...

obtained so much notice, I cannot divine. How absurd, how ludicrous, how contemptible are sentiments of morality and religion from the pen of such a weak enthusiast...

confused, perplexed, totally lost farkakte (Yid. פֿאַרקאַקטע‎): screwed up, contemptible; literally "shat upon" (see verkackte) farklemt (Yid. פֿאַרקלעמט): choked...

little-mindedness, meanlinesses, of braggadocio, pusillanimity, and contemptible vanity." While serving on the California Supreme Court, Field had a special...

previously has concealed in the actor's bedsit without his knowledge. With contemptible satisfaction, he unravels his entire plan to the shocked, broken pair...

Europeans only. And instead of honour we suffer humiliation with names contemptible. But in time of war it has been found that needed to share hardships...

condition". Beatles authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter call the song "contemptible", claiming it would be suitable for the 1960s girl group The Shaggs....

Title 1983 Story Teller: The Happy Prince & Stolen Thunder 1991 The Old Contemptibles 1992 The Man with a Load of Mischief The Anodyne Necklace The Old Silent...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749), in which Fielding remarked, "How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the...

23, 2015). "Tarantino Says He'll Never Work w/ Spike Lee, Calls Him Contemptible + Says He Has 2 More Films Before Retirement". Indiewire. Archived from...

power to the people of labour! And away with all the parasites! Chorus Contemptible you are in your wealth, You kings of coal and steel! You had your thrones...

discrimination in our society, none ... We will turn racism into something contemptible and despicable." Netanyahu supports the integration of the African Hebrew...

in combination with the adjective schnöde ("der schnöde Mammon" = the contemptible mammon). The 1409 Lollard manuscript titled Lanterne of Light associated...

premise of, "Is Long John Silver a delightful Falstaffian character or a contemptible villain?" That idea was something they carried into Captain Jack Sparrow...

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, announced a hearing on "this contemptible pursuit of our soldiers" while Justice Minister Yariv Levin both expressed...

 1988 (1988-10-22) 004 23.9 Carol gets all dolled up for a date with her contemptible ex-husband. Harry thinks Dreyfuss may be sick. Special Guest Stars: Ann...

the characters in the novel as being: "utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible", and an anonymous reviewer in The Examiner also wrote in 1848: This...

a specially selected programme. Items were: Marches, 'Invicta' and 'Contemptibles'; song marches, 'Waltzing Matilda', 'There'll Always Be an England'...

called for the trials to be moved to London. Another declared that the "contemptible" sentence given to Sergeant Heynen had reduced the trials to "a judicial...

the game box: Disaster looms for the bowler and brolly brigade. The contemptible COUNT CHAMELEON, Master of Disguise and sworn enemy of the establishment...

Expeditionary Force (BEF), for service in France and became known as the Old Contemptibles. The mass of volunteers in 1914–1915, popularly known as Kitchener's...

Roger Ebert gave the film a rare zero stars out of four, calling it "A contemptible film: Vile, ugly and brutal. There is not a shred of reason to see it...

the deepest depth ever plumbed by the once considerable and now nearly contemptible British film industry in its resolute search for the lowest kind of taste...

making use of the means civilized nations consider as condemnable and contemptible. The Americans, gratified with their social progress, have drained off...

she witnesses her parents and their drunken colleagues at their most contemptible. Natalie experiments with different identities among the party-goers...

before the end of his consulship; and yet Flavius was a man of most contemptible laziness and Domitian had besides openly named his sons, who were then...

particularly of a slave known to be loyal and truthful, was considered contemptible. Masters were expected to be neither gratuitously cruel and wrathful...

American English) See also Joey. spanner (US: wrench) (slang) an idiot, a contemptible person (US: a less pejorative synonym for tool.) spawny lucky spend a...

it's an unserious and unaccountable bureaucracy. Often it's explicitly contemptible, such as during the Fast-and-Furious gun-walking scandal, and its setting...

politically motivated violence. Chris Willman of Variety called it "the most contemptible country song of the decade [and] the video is worse", saying that the...

or craven. Editors have rigged polls to mislead readers, who are so contemptible, they don't even realise that the only true Pepper is the original mono...

Mormon "the most gross, the most ridiculous, the most imbecile, the most contemptible concern, that was ever attempted to be palmed off upon society as a revelation...

intended to throw away his first shot, which Burr would later call "contemptible, if true". Regardless of its accuracy, Burr certainly had no way of knowing...

nwsource.com. 22 July 2001. Retrieved 17 July 2010. "Chief whip's actions 'contemptible'". 7 December 2001. Retrieved 1 April 2020. Media related to Poodle (category)...

"drunkard" (from 醉 zuì "drunk") -货 huò, e.g. 贱货 jiànhuò "contemptible wretch" (from 贱 jiàn "contemptible"), 饿货 èhuò "hungry guy" (from 饿 è "hungry") -ard, e...

adequate" Judicial corruption (point 2): "For having abused and rendered contemptible the magistrates of justice by advancing to places of judicature scandalous...

talking, a portmanteau of "schmooze" + "bourgeoisie". Schmuck: (vulgar) A contemptible or foolish person; a jerk; (שמאָק, shmok, 'penis', probably from Old...

vandalism of 32 KwaZulu-Natal schools, one of which burned down, as contemptible. In Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, a crematorium was completely destroyed...

a pronoun in Old English Git (slang), British and Irish slang for a contemptible person Gitxsan language Git!, a 1965 American drama film Git Gay (1921–2007)...

football teams in the town currently. Cricket is prominent, with the Old Contemptibles, Loughborough Town CC, Loughborough Outwoods CC, Loughborough Carillon...

Danino told the press, "The lynch in Jerusalem was the most severe and contemptible act imaginable in a democratic law-abiding country." On 19 August, Israeli...

Sydney George Smith, would end debate on multiple amendments as the most contemptible thing he knew, and refusing to withdraw his statement. 17 March 1932...

Retrieved 24 August 2020. Platzer, Brian (24 July 2020). "Paw Patrol Is Contemptible Trash". Vulture. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved...

that had a preview audience laughing in derision". What he found "most contemptible is the way the film never justifies any of its characters' behavior....

leaving the children and servants in charge of the place. These damnable contemptible devils in soldier's uniforms belonging to our gallant battery went ahead...

Tony Blair condemned the assassination stating "We condemn utterly this contemptible act of violence". United States: US President George W. Bush condemned...

sycophant who supports the king in whatever the king does, no matter how contemptible. Gonzago stages a show trial on his queen's alleged infidelity. Eulalia...

Election-law scholar Edward B. Foley called Trump's conduct "inappropriate and contemptible" while the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics...

creatures: the octopus or the web-weaving spider. The dog is one of the most contemptible similes in the Arab street (translated from Hebrew). Gerteiny, Alfred...

history, and science as impractical, politically motivated, and even contemptible human endeavours. Anti-intellectuals may present themselves and be perceived...

majority". Hamilton also wrote that such a requirement would encourage "contemptible compromises of the public good". In Federalist 58, Madison wrote that...

whose narrow-mindedness goes [so] far as to call today's dance music contemptible should be serenaded with ashaming generosity by the Liebeslieder of the...

interpretation of the First Amendment which protects "the majority of contemptible, bigoted speech." Charles C. W. Cooke, writing for the National Review...

particular for strong criticism, stating that the film "descends to truly contemptible emotional brutality". Conversely, Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly...

"make a pretty hash of British history", this piece was "not altogether contemptible as an opera story". The open-mindedness of the Société Nationale had...

or of religion in general," Hart criticizes New Atheism for being "as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism" because it "consists entirely...

opera's leading male figure. Created by William J. Bell as a "despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser", the character was planned to be killed off...

fails me when I attempt to recall and picture the many disagreeable, contemptible acts committed under General Sheridan's orders, under the name of war...

may merely be overrated, disappointing, or dull. Down below it may be contemptible." Turkey (indicated by a cartoon turkey): "a bad record of some general...

lasted from February 4 to March 23, 1907, Penrose called McDonald a "contemptible coward". Penrose was acquitted of the charge. The black community was...

hope to the millions of people that deserve so much better than these contemptible Tories." Serwotka is married to Ruth Serwotka, co-founder of the organisation...

Abu Hurayra, referring to his Hadithist opponents as al-nabita ("the contemptible"). Al-Jāḥiẓ died 250 [A.D. 869], during the caliphate of al-Mu‘tazz....

reported public meeting, Congressman Barney Frank called the images "vile, contemptible nonsense." University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine...

premise of, "Is Long John Silver a delightful Falstaffian character or a contemptible villain?" That idea was something they carried into Jack Sparrow. In...

humanitarian slogans, while driven by mere greed, unleashed the most contemptible actions on a people under attack. [T]he same Churchill is now Albion's...

.. dwindled our commerce, and other similar pursuits, into the most contemptible insignificance; sunk a large majority of our people in galling poverty...

higher-born husband' theme. Some think that Bertram is not meant to be contemptible but merely a callow youth learning valuable lessons about values. Andrew...

about smug, contemptible, callous stuffed shirts who think that dictators are inevitable and the average man is bloodthirsty and contemptible. Gaylord and...

Minister Jean-Claude Juncker described the assassination as a "deeply contemptible act."  Malta – Foreign Minister Michael Frendo said, "The killing of...

audience. Some scholars identify him with the Maevius rubbished as a contemptible poet by Virgil in Eclogues 3.90 but there is no proof for such an identification...

healthy and varied diet, eating nothing but "beach food" is considered contemptible among the Tlingit and a sign of poverty. Indeed, shamans and their families...

Expeditionary Force (BEF), also called the Old Contemptibles. Despite German "contempt" (hence the name, Old Contemptibles), the BEF managed to shore up the manpower...

self-defense, and the concomitant use of arms; the supplanting of the old, "contemptible" Diaspora language (i.e., Yiddish) with the new "authentic" tongue of...

 1387. Moon, Peter (December 9, 1972). "The rich man a judge called 'a contemptible landlord'". The Toronto Star. p. 21  – via newspapers.com (subscription...

trichotomy temn-, tempt-  – Latin temnere contemn, contemnible, contempt, contemptible, contumacious, contumacy, contumelious, contumely tempor- time Latin...

Braeden's Victor Newman. Originally, the character was "a despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser" who was intended to be killed off. Braeden's...

complaint in March 2011. The judge reprimanded the grandparents for their "contemptible actions’’. He cited their repeated attempts to undermine the father-son...

politicians of being infatuated with the idea of the city becoming a "mere contemptible hamlet." The lack of basic infrastructure led to unsanitary conditions...

may merely be overrated, disappointing, or dull. Down below it may be contemptible". Ajitpaul Mangat of Tiny Mix Tapes called the album often "generic"...

question, "Is Long John Silver a delightful Falstaffian character or a contemptible villain?" Hector Barbossa's pet monkey, named "Jack" after Jack Sparrow...

contemporary dramatic critic, characterised this production as "truly contemptible", and added that the "genius and abilities of the writer did no credit...

irrelevant, or worthless person, especially one who is irritating or contemptible out of proportion to his or her perceived significance. A Virginia politician...

Fox lambasted Prussia's behaviour as "a compound of everything that is contemptible in servility with everything that is odious in rapacity." The annexation...

horrifies me" and wrote with disgust about "Swedish vulgarity and contemptibility". In 1874, Gobineau met the homosexual German diplomat Philipp, Prince...

pornographic comedy". He criticized the film, arguing that its "few less-contemptible ideas" were overshadowed by excessive sex scenes, "just like any other...

irresistible passion of the undergraduate for posing, cannot excuse such a contemptible and indecent action as the passing of that resolution". The Manchester...

fashion," "a parasite of Lord Lyttelton;" and his tragedy is condemned as contemptible. He left England on account of his failing health, and afterwards published...

of everyone, and we now became fully convinced that they are not that contemptible enemy we had hitherto imagined them, incapable of standing a regular...

written by Durfey, and which, though like all Durfey's writings, utterly contemptible, was, at that time, almost as popular as Lillibullero became a few years...

including one translation Djadi Korbannja "Perempoean-hina" The Victim of a "Contemptible Woman" 1924 Olt Djin Item dari Legok-Hondje The Black Jinn of Legok-Hondje...

setup Single-camera Running time 37–43 minutes Production companies Contemptible Entertainment Nomadic Pictures Original release Network Netflix Release...

(Ukrainians), particularly in Saint Petersburg, who are referred to as "paltry contemptible creatures" (because they acquire wealth dishonorably and conceal their...

and Lolita Flores. It is a Spanish-Portuguese co-production. Pedro, a contemptible nurse, receives supernatural powers from a magic box and is mentored...

an esteem superior to all other nations shall make ourselves the most contemptible."[quote needs citation] Similar observations were made by Henry Grenville:...

propagators of "falsehood and hypocrisy" and those of the Chartists as "contemptible and hateful". In June 1852 he was involved in an incident in the House...

the fiat, Filipp Goloshchekin, the head of the military commissariat, contemptibly sneered, "Dogs deserve a dog's death", as he glared at the dead tsar...

Joel's bedroom and Joel strives to be more tolerant of him despite his contemptible behavior. 9 "Jesse Judge Lawncare Incorporated" John Carcieri & Rob Rosell...

David Margesson, who said to him "I can tell you this, you utterly contemptible little shit. On every morning that you wake up for the rest of your life...

associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. In 1867, John Stuart Mill made a similar statement in an inaugural...

His followers and representatives from among "the foolish, base, and contemptible things of this world," in order to show that the success of the Gospel...

via Deseret News. Shulins, Nancy (July 7, 1991). "Women writers create contemptible male characters". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on July...

the family Gryllacrididae, and the type species contemnendus (i.e. 'contemptible German'). When the family was revised many years later by an Austrian...

Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1948 and National President of the Old Contemptibles Association in 1960. Schreiber married Phyllis Barchard in 1916; they...

of faith, when they had once received the faith, saying, "They were contemptible and wretched who did not obey their God, in whom they believed." This...

Valley, in the upper Hudson River Valley of upstate New York. He is a contemptible man who is in debt and pays little attention to the woman who loves him...

and blemish, but a deformed uglinesse, making all the rest loathsome, contemptible and odious to all that lookt upon her in her infancie." The midwife who...

indulge in sentimental scenes". Nick Schager of Variety wrote: "This contemptible fiasco is not only comfortable courting laughs through ugly mockery of...

many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay,...

the kingdom of heaven have for the greater part been delivered with a contemptible meanness of words. Had they been adorned with a more splendid eloquence...

there is a case of any man of reputation getting himself into such a contemptible position. He will be the laughing-stock of all the continental anatomists...

2003: 'Clinton'. Kate Caffrey, Farewell Leicester Square: The Old Contemptibles, 12 August–20 November 1914, London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. Niall Cherry...

case. The author described his work as a "sally of indignation at the contemptible wonder in Cock-lane". Works such as The Orators (1762) by Samuel Foote...

Jarvis Record, pg 1. Retrieved 25 September 2023. "Attack on Bracken Is 'Contemptible,' Drew's Reaction" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September...

2009. McElligott, Richard. "'Degenerating from sterling Irishmen into contemptible West Britons': the GAA and rugby in Kerry, 1885–1905". History Ireland...

but also said that his ex-band fared even worse, concluding that "this contemptible opus is but the palest shadow of the group's earlier accomplishments...

September 7, 2017. Ornstein, Norm (July 24, 2013). "The Unprecedented and Contemptible Attempts to Sabotage Obamacare". National Journal. Archived from the...

Curiosity, which is otherwise a praiseworthy virtue, is regarded as a contemptible vice and is severely frowned upon[dead link] Manzoor Ahmad, Ph.D. "Brief...

sportswriter called him "a fine ball-player, yet he adopts every low and contemptible method that his erratic brain can conceive to win a play by a dirty trick"...

paramilitaries in the 1970s. Thatcher denounced his claims as "utterly contemptible". In September 1987 Livingstone was elected to Labour's National Executive...

takes, not only in the sense that the biography industry is trivial and contemptible, but also that it is so absurd as to be a source of entertainment. Hence...

central premise of which was that everyone involved in government were contemptible halfwits interested purely in self-preservation. Showcasing ever more...

Palomino and Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, described his mature work as "contemptible", "ridiculous" and "worthy of scorn". The views of Palomino and Bermúdez...

scaly, scabby or rugged. Alternatively, 'scawt' meaning scruffy and contemptible, and when applied to rocks, covered in barnacles. Scawt Hill is notable...

men... really these attacks against our lines with columns of men are contemptible." These failings were still evident at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815...

was to render the whole of the Christian institution both odious and contemptible." Although the book was published anonymously, it was well known that...

pitiful Fellow, one of very mean Rank and Qualifications, every Way contemptible? — What must they think of a Nation who quietly permits such a Wretch...

the Goldsteins' divorce. They became estranged after Al called Gina "a contemptible vagina". One of Goldstein's best friends was Larry Flynt. Goldstein said...

"with Blethyn and Ferguson heading the cast, Saving Grace is hardly a contemptible effort, just a rote treatment of a tired subject." After Saving Grace...

ultimate goal and the aim of one's existence, in his words "makes one contemptible." Nietzsche instead yearned for a culture that would set higher, more...

(Eric Hotz, unknown) Challenge & Reply! WW1 Naval (Agema.org.uk, 2000) Contemptible Little Armies (HLBS Publishing, 2002) Cordite and Steel (TSR, Inc., 1977)...

Keener said that Danny and his teammates had been "used ... in a most contemptible and despicable way" and that "millions of Little Leaguers around the...

Lone Sentry. Hinckley, Paul. "A Dictionary of Great War Slang". Old Contemptible's Great War Website. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved...

Honesty, Learning and Industry" to show "at the bottom [the author's] contemptible Opinion of every Thing which is called Christianity." The work continued...

faith is in vain!"—And at once there sprang from the Gospels the most contemptible of all unfulfillable promises, the shameless doctrine of personal immortality...

critical responses were frequently negative: John Simon called it "contemptible and pretentious". Closer to the spirit of Shakespeare's original, in...

maintain unimpaired [his] independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvements of [his] talents in literature". Despite the...

protocol of the code duello and, when Burr learned of it, he responded: "Contemptible, if true." Hamilton could have thrown away his shot by firing into the...

whose members resigned in protest, was viewed internationally as a "contemptible farce", an attempt to erase Lithuanian's history of collaboration with...

artists to pass themselves off as heroes, but one thing is certain — it is contemptible. So this week, we will launch a new website, a living memorial, so the...

"all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being". He identified a fundamental contradiction in modern society:...

Blackmore in Pope's An Essay on Criticism as the type of all that is contemptible in a critic. Milbourne attempted an English rendering of Virgil before...

described how people in the following occupations were considered paji (contemptible): elephant caretaking, bread- and perfume-making, and dealing in bazaars...

Williams' barrister Hastings later described Power as "[the most] utterly contemptible human being I have ever met," and during his cross-examination Hastings...

Fenemore, Derek Griffiths, Tony Selby and Cheryl Hall. 88 6 "The Old Contemptible" Missing N/A 15 July 1970 (1970-07-15) Starring Arthur English, Gretchen...

Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6467-3. Barthorp, Michael (1989). The Old Contemptibles. Vol. 24 of Elite Series. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85045-898-5...

Convivial Company of the Wandering Poor and the Honorable Strength of the Contemptible." It can be found in the Royal Archives in Rabat: Bibliothèque Royal...

cutouts, and tailfins on buildings marked Googie architecture, which was contemptible to some architects of then-current High Art Modernism, but had defenders...

Amherst in a list of people in the history of Canada who are considered contemptible by the authors, because he "supported plans of distributing smallpox-infested...

world. To the cultured mind the bulk of our [i.e. black] people are contemptible[…] Go into the country parts of Jamaica and you will see there villainy...

Biography of the Present Age declared that his acting in tragedy was "contemptible" and in light comedy only "tolerable". This assessment may have come...

assassins" and "cowards", and alleged that they were "guided by the contemptible Grishka Rasputin!" Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, Prince Georgy Lvov...

back at the insurrections of his youth, comments that figures like the "contemptible" Po Kambo and Achar Sau were guilty of lèse-majesté. They were "awful...

word meaning "lightning", also a mildly profane word used to someone contemptible, being wished to be hit by lightning, such as in "Lintik ka!''. The term...

by Belknap. Belknap writes that Truman considered the CPUSA to be "a contemptible minority in a land of freedom". Theoharis, Atahn, The FBI: A Comprehensive...

They are, also, notably ill-tempered. Thomas Davies called Poetaster "a contemptible mixture of the serio-comic, where the names of Augustus Caesar, Maecenas...

touchiness of a true obsessive: "Let me tell you, here are some colours, contemptible as they seem here, that are very hard to be got; and scarce any one of...

average rating of 3.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Vile, contemptible, garish, and misogynistic – and that might just be exactly Showgirls'...

were "treacherous" and that Whitefield had made himself "odious and contemptible". However, the two reconciled in later life. Along with Wesley, Whitefield...

sent his condolences to Zakharchenko's family, calling his death a "contemptible murder". The Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokesperson Maria Zakharova...

the Super NES version, and specifically describing Link's voice as "contemptible". Four Swords was followed in 2004 by a GameCube sequel, Four Swords...

is undoubtedly strong but this is, I believe, the most obnoxious and contemptible play I have ever sat through”. Robert Gore-Langton in Express on Sunday...

"I thank you, Lord Jesus Christ, that you have accounted me, the most contemptible and chief among sinners, worthy to lay down my life for your sake!" Enraged...

during his lifetime; he probably had the informal though not always contemptible education of a courtier, which he was from about the age of 15. In his...

given a brain; a spinal cord would suffice entirely. [...] How vile and contemptible war seems to me.” Marc Lapprand emphasizes that the same kind of criticism...

constituted "a people". The statement was condemned by Bar Ilan University as ‘contemptible’ and ‘immoral’. Weiss himself has refuted these accusations, including...

Regiment, having been captured at Ypres after being wounded, wrote of the "contemptible" Ross rifle, "Those in the front line with that rifle will never forget...

situations. According to linguist Deborah Tannen, "Bitch is the most contemptible thing you can say about a woman. Save perhaps the four-letter C word...

3:123–125 (Yusuf Ali). "Allah had helped you at Badr, when ye were a contemptible little force; then fear Allah; thus May ye show your gratitude. Remember...

soul. Taught to regard a part of our own species in the most abject and contemptible degree below us, we lose that idea of the dignity of man, which the hand...

admirable as a villain. Kenneth Lowe of Paste called her "one of the most contemptible Disney villainesses in a while", whose death "belongs in the top 15 if...

association of Amazons with enfranchisement of women, which was considered contemptible. Elizabeth was present at a tournament celebrating the marriage of the...

of Battenberg has, by his resignation, pandered to the most mean and contemptible slander I have ever known ... I was simply astounded to hear the base...

that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects. After Knox gave an explanation of the sermon, Mary stated...

Recurring role; 3 episodes Comedy Playhouse Lily Oakley Episode: "The Old Contemptible" Never Say Die Glenda Catchpole Episode: "Goodbye Mr. Bridge" Armchair...

soldier in the Royal Field Artillery and was proud to be one of the 'Old Contemptibles'. London Borough of Newham have placed a blue heritage plaque on the...

undertaking', that its grammatical and historical parts were 'most truly contemptible performances', and that 'nearly one third ... is as much the language...

According to Matthew Paris, only 2 Templars, 1 Hospitaller and one 'contemptible person' escaped. Matthew Paris, Louis IX's Crusade, p. 14/ Vol. 5. Runciman...

edition of the ‘Landscape,’ stigmatised as "a sort of doggerel ode" and "a contemptible publication". The Fables from La Fontaine, in English Verse (1820) contained...

treatment planning: 1) a view of self as bad, inadequate, guilty, and contemptible; 2) a sense of alienation or loneliness; and 3) rejection sensitivity...

Frederick Andrews Higgins) 1st Aircraft Park (Carden) Bell, Ron. “The Old Contemptibles.” Strategy & Tactics, Number 228 (May/June 2005). Terraine, John. Mons...

simply embodies what many think of their own fathers: utterly powerful, contemptibly inept. As a result, the Hardy Boys are able both to be superior to their...

work under "uneducated men". John Henry wrote that merchants "...are a contemptible set of beings. They are afraid to receive a young man from College, lest...

"king of the north." After many battles (described in great detail) a "contemptible person" will become king of the north; this king will invade the south...

ridiculous; in the most ridiculous modes; and apparently, by the most contemptible instruments. Every thing seems out of nature in this strange chaos of...

self-righteous fearmongering isn’t just clueless or reckless; it’s an act of contemptible irresponsibility." Focus on the Family said, "Philosophically, the movie...

displayed behavior of the senior World of Warships management is "cowardly, contemptible, and shitbird-like". Makuch, Eddie (25 February 2016). "Gaming Has a...

as an insult to homosexuals, and is being used only in reference to a contemptible person who rides a Harley motorcycle, or "an inconsiderate douchebag"...

Representative Robert L. Doughton publicly stated, "It is the most contemptible thing I ever heard of to summon a Jap officer to testify against one...

(Persia) North & South Kings 4 Winds (Greece) North & South Kings A Contemptible Person of Intrigue Pagan & Papal Rome North & South Kings End Times Global...

decorated with blue flowers; in this arrangement, Earth itself is a contemptible atom, consumed by hatred and war. Dan finds that the entire cosmos is...

1808 commented on the Kilmaurs town-hall and jail, saying they "are contemptible, of little use, and ought to be pulled down." In 1874 the steeple was...

appreciate in the history plays: here, it is the weak, vacillating, sometimes contemptible character of King John; the "comic" but forthright, noble character of...

conspiracy. The resulting document was described by Henri Bourassa as 'contemptible'. He was defended, however, by ministers, as he was a deputy minister...

others who do not conform to their will or values as purely wicked or contemptible. The cognitive habit of splitting also implies the use of other related...

before God; to distrust my own strength; and never to despise the most contemptible foe. I have neglected these lessons; and my neglect has been deservedly...

without any boldness, rich in all sorts of concessions, pettiness, and contemptible actions." Giant was a huge box-office success. The film earned $35 million...

people did.” Doing so while collecting a paycheck, he said, was “slightly contemptible. The review further noted that "“Emergency Sex,” with its tales of drug...

not allowed to do any other craft: these two occupations have become contemptible and dishonorable because of this."] Delacampagne (1983), pp. 114–115...

philosopher-poet Thomas Duddy, "rendered much of the Shavian outlook passé and contemptible". "Creative evolution", Shaw's version of the new science of eugenics...

ridiculed the theory of virtual representation, calling it "the most contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of a man; it does not deserve serious...

scholars. Readers, when they could be found, mostly regarded it as a contemptible farrago of violence and bombast, while theatrical managers treated it...

any legal process whatever, of some rojillos, ( little reds, meaning contemptible), from the locale. Olaechea sought to subdue the murders; " Forgiveness...

was "great-grandson of Asinius Pollio and bore a character far from contemptible." The younger Marcus Asinius Marcellus was a consul ordinarius in 104...

the Book of Numbers. He invited contrast between the "meagre lines and contemptible tortures of the Laocoon" and the "awfulness and quietness" of Michelangelo...

prompting District Court Judge David Nelson to repeatedly reprimand him for contemptible behavior. On February 27, 1986, Angiulo and his co-defendants were convicted...

in Parliament, describing his candidacy as "obscene, outrageous and contemptible". One year after her murder, three individuals who came to her aid were...

designers all knew the truth, and many considered Teller the lowest, most contemptible kind of offender in the world of science, a stealer of credit". Teller...

responses to the film were frequently negative: John Simon called it "contemptible and pretentious". Closer to the spirit of Shakespeare's original, in...

LMS Royal Scot Class 6127 The Old Contemptibles, as rebuilt in 1944 Type and origin Power type Steam Designer Sir William Stanier Rebuilder LMS Derby...

inadvertently prompting the arrival of her husband. Revealed to be a contemptible character, the husband's deplorable behavior prompts Fifi to rebuff him...

Wilson opined that these young Americans regarded civilization as "a contemptible farce of the futile and the absurd; the world of finance, the army, and...

against him". Several of the subsequent speakers "referred to the late contemptible attack upon Mr. Griffin, and pointed out that many of the statements...

idea on politics, and that is why it is an enemy of the dribbling and contemptible politics. It unveils a man who longed for a change of his time to take...

but Jews should be exhorted to cease hating us and regarding us as contemptible animals." As ever, Catholic leaders from the Arab world also spoke out...

whilst recuperating on his sickbed in 1935, found it to be "mediocre, contemptible and crude ... [with no] shade of perception, talent or imagination."...

Brown, 1987) The Old Silent (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989) The Old Contemptibles (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991) The Horse You Came In On (New York: Alfred...

be rich, nor glorious, nor secure, whose subjects are either poor, or contemptible, or too weak through want, or dissension, to maintain a war against their...

a semantic field that includes "poor, miserable; vile, base, abject, contemptible", and "despicable". The term Hīnayāna was translated by Kumārajīva and...

Marshal French's contemptible little Army." This led to the British "Tommies" of the BEF proudly labelling themselves "The Old Contemptibles". No evidence...

His first novel, Djadi Korbannja "Perempoean Hina" (The Victim of a "Contemptible Woman"), was published in 1924. According to his original introduction...

each branch of the armed services: "Eight Bells" for the Navy, "New Contemptible" for the Army, and "Wings" for the RAF. Reginald "Johnnie" Johnson, 1942...

quotable, but both John Calvin, who "denounced scholastic theology as contemptible" (Payton, James R., Jr, Getting the Reformation Wrong, 2010, page 197)...

review of the film, Eric Kohn of Indiewire praised Tukel as possessing "contemptible goofiness" and being "the broke, post-9/11 version of an early Woody...

direct control. For his part, Harmar wrote: "No person can hold a more contemptible opinion of the militia in general than I do... It is lamentable... that...

the more precious were its medicinal virtues. Hence, remedies made of contemptible creatures contained greater medicinal virtues than such ‘precious' drugs...

hints at a hard-fought and sometimes dirty campaign. Pope was called "contemptible" in a letter from John Murray to Horatio Gates, and William Allason wrote...

University Press, 2009 (ed. Maurice Waite), p. 986. "Sheriff judges aye-aye a contemptible no-no". Herald Scotland. 11 December 1993. Retrieved 21 October 2013...

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, announced a hearing on "this contemptible pursuit of our soldiers" while Justice Minister Yariv Levin both expressed...

despised ethnic group of Tanka Boat people, and as prostitutes engaged in "contemptible" sexual intercourse with Western men. In the empirical work done by CT...

Liberty GB move to contest Labour MP's former seat branded 'obscene' and 'contemptible'". The Independent. Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original...

possibly of Charrua origin, which meant something like "old indian" or "contemptible person", and is actually found in the historical record. However in the...

But as the thief who stole from the church and is called "The most contemptible man of the year". 24 24 "Dennis' Paper Drive" Charles Barton Story by :...

explanation of the animatics and computer-generated imagery, the notoriously contemptible feature film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and other extras. On...

Archived from the original on July 11, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2015. "The Contemptible Games Journalist: Why So Many People Don't Trust The Gaming Press (And...

Retrieved 26 September 2014. Stephen Totilo (5 November 2012). "The Contemptible Games Journalist: Why So Many People Don't Trust The Gaming Press (And...

Election-law scholar Edward B. Foley called Trump's conduct "inappropriate and contemptible" while the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics...

to make out cups, in his Drunk; spifflicated; stewed, pickled cur A contemptible man curb, on the Out in the street; said of curbstone brokers, dealing...

written 'many children', on others 'wealth' or 'respect' and so on. 'Contemptible life', 'poverty', 'wretchedness' are also written on the leaves. All...

According to Matthew Paris, only 2 Templars, 1 Hospitaller and one ‘contemptible person’ escaped. Matthew Paris, Louis IX`s Crusade, p. 14/ Vol. 5. Lord...

the Conservative MP, Alan Duncan, described the media coverage as "contemptible". Hague was criticised by Israeli leaders after meeting with Palestinians...

fully realised creation of years of storytelling and a fundamentally contemptible prick—he feels like a living, breathing person, but a living, breathing...

postcards that include those that are offensive or racist, even the "most contemptible examples" of such works. By 1993, there were about 50,000 black memorabilia...

any punishment and can look forward to a life of being disgusting and contemptible. Diane is out on UC with Liery when a rollerblader bumps into her and...

victims of a dastardly frame-up." He called Price's testimony "a foul, contemptible, outrageous lie." He ended with the Lord's Prayer and a challenge to...

the blacksmiths were segregated from the larger populace and seen as contemptible. (...) No Teda/Daza would think of marrying a blacksmith. They are a...

off every principle of common honour and honesty ... [a man who is] as contemptible as he is odious ... [and has an] aversion to all restraints." On 6 April...

conclusion. Features R. G. Armstrong as a cattle baron, Brad Johnson as his contemptible son and his strong-willed daughter, played by future Academy Award winner...

his father had left to him on pleasures, but, says Philostratus, not contemptible pleasures.[citation needed] Alexander was tutored at first by Aelius...

purpose of the edict. Cassius Dio generally saw Caracalla as a bad, contemptible emperor. Another goal may have been to increase the number of men able...

characters might be comically foolish but they aren't (with some exceptions) contemptible." However, Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph called the opening episode's...

example, he encouraged Gerardina to enter the contest. She received the contemptible reward, and found, to her astonishment, that the Minerva Academy considered...

of Luigi Capuano's Legge di sangue, in which she played the role of a contemptible and obscure noblewoman very successfully. By her own account, she played...

His first novel, Djadi Korbannja "Perempoean Hina" (The Victim of a "Contemptible Woman"), was published in 1924. In 1928, Kwee was asked by a friend,...

is not prepared to back up his words, his position becomes absolutely contemptible. So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge...

of his mother and her little sister. In reprisals, by reminding the contemptible words uttered by Dharmalingam against his blind little sister, Jambu...

in 1938, Simpson declared that the modern West was "one of the most contemptible civilizations that has ever existed", denouncing feminism, "poor breeding"...

Retrieved 24 August 2020. Platzer, Brian (24 July 2020). "Paw Patrol Is Contemptible Trash". Vulture. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved...

all reformatory organisations. To screen personal animosities, always contemptible, side issues were introduced, and the essential aim of the League lost...

or the Siege of Quebec (1766) an historical tragedy in five acts "a contemptible production without either form or significance;" "Benevolence and Gratitude"...

North British Sep 1927 Aug 1944 Dec 1962 Renamed June 1936 The Old Contemptibles 6128 46128 Meteor North British Sep 1927 Jun 1946 May 1965 Renamed April...

angry letter back, calling Crowley "Alice" and describing him as "a contemptible bitch". Crowley then circulated a document attacking Regardie, accusing...

a mute God, but a living and speaking one; none of the gods is more contemptible to the nations than this living one to Christians who have no part of...

Germany). Motivated by the desire to restore the peace by quelling "some contemptible band of barbarians who tested the very beginnings of your [his] reign...

healthy and varied diet, eating nothing but "beach food" is considered contemptible among the Tlingit, and a sign of poverty. Shamans and their families...

against SAU VC's misbehaviour". New Age. Retrieved 2024-01-23. "Vile & Contemptible!". Daily Sun. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 2024-01-23. সিকৃবির নতুন ভিসি...

op-ed in the National Post which condemned Levant's commentary as a "contemptible screed" and argued that "[t]he time has come for all of us to reject...

tempore, ex parte, ad hoc and sub rosa". In 2005, Whitlam called Kerr "a contemptible person". On the other hand, Country Party leader and deputy prime minister...

character had been written differently—"not either annoying or downright contemptible"—and deemed her "a wasted opportunity to give us an interesting female...

clap-traps. The disguises; the pathos; the love-parts; the heroines—are all contemptible." Two operatic adaptations of the novel exist. La spia, overro, Il merciaiuolo...

voluntary sacrifice… There is no way left for us to pass from our present contemptible amorphousness into the future except through open, personal, predominantly...

initial campaigns of the war including the Battle of Mons as an "old contemptible" of the British Expeditionary Force. He was awarded a Military Medal...

it will triumph rapidly. Materialism is a lesser evil. Its values are contemptible, but nevertheless less destructive, less cruel than those of Islam. He...

apply the test to myself with the same destroying result. Everyone was contemptible, except perhaps Dr. Farley. When he hears that Dr. Farley is leaving...

searching for areas based on race and ethnicity is “not necessarily contemptible,” and provided an example of a Korean customer who used NeighborhoodScout...

considered Shcherbakov to be "a poisonous snake" and "one of the most contemptible characters around Stalin" wrote that "Shcherbakov ended up drinking himself...

Album 'DAYSTAR'". Andre Gee of Complex called the album "a project too contemptible to be evaluated on any musical scale" and "much worse than just a terrible...

Snepvangers, Pieter; Williams, Eric (30 May 2026). "Farage cast out 'contemptible' Rupert Lowe. Now, his party is raining on Reform's parade". The Telegraph...

some different details. Diodorus states that although Bakenranef was "contemptible in appearance", he was wiser than his predecessors (1.65). The Egyptians...

or in the employ of Her Majesty's Government there are none so truly contemptible as the flagellator, and in all my experiences through life I never knew...

1999. They told the court, "Everything that the two officers claim is a contemptible lie," and showed the scars the men left on their bodies. The prosecutor...

such Hadiths, referring to his Hadithist opponents as al-nabita ("the contemptible"). According to Racha El Omari, early Mu'tazilites believed that hadith...

reworks the clues to uncover the truth that had long been covered up by a contemptibly corrupt and lazy police department (contemporary classicists). Paul Oskar...

enormous development that the seven planetary spheres are thought of as contemptibly low; and Ialdabaoth, once their ruler, in this book sinks to a demon...

entrusted with important responsibilities. Besides, they cannot change their contemptible characters and they switch their allegiances very quickly. They constantly...

reissued in 2000), Francis Crick said that he regarded Watson's book as a "contemptible pack of damned nonsense". <! NOTE: External media of Watson in 2012 no...

ultimate goal and the aim of one's existence, in his words "makes one contemptible." Nietzsche instead yearned for a culture that would set higher, more...

real painting itself is! And there is, and always was, nothing more contemptible, ridiculous and, to art, disastrous, than patrioteering, which thinly...

Today the church is approached by way of Old Contemptibles Avenue, so named after the Old Contemptibles who attended an annual service at the church for...

according to Matthew Paris, Only 2 Templars, 1 Hospitaller and one ‘contemptible person’ escaped After the crusaders captured Damietta, general emergency...

attempt to further malign Catiline, as marrying for lust was considered contemptible in Roman society (whereas marrying for money was not). This anecdote...

gentrie and worldlie reputation) nobilitie or gentilitie is a vaine and contemptible tytle hear in England, and allwayes hath bene and of the contrarie, the...

According to Matthew Paris, Only 2 Templars, 1 Hospitaller and one 'contemptible person' escaped. ( Matthew Paris, LOUIS IX`S CRUSADE.p.147 / Vol.5 )...

while seeing clearly that the existing aristocracy is degenerate and contemptible. [T]he best books of any one age have always been written from several...

"It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually...

with Antiochus, who reigned 175–164 BC. Verse 21 describes him as "the contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given", meaning that he came...

and finds Groo at best tolerable when she is in need of his sword, and contemptible otherwise. Romantically speaking, she considers his idiotic advances...

at other people's misfortune with sordid glee, you're nothing but a contemptible "voyeur". The difference between a mere "voyeur" and "one with the voyeur's...

band he leads have it all their own way....the Japanese are shown as contemptibly inefficient fighters in their own kind of territory, and not all the...

October 2009. Grant and Youens 1972, p. 28. Michael Barthorp, The Old Contemptibles: the British Expeditionary Force, its creation and exploits, 1902–1914...

In 1825 Hugh Dickson, a Glasgow weaver, held him up to derision as a contemptible informer in a pamphlet which was embodied in 1833 in "An Exposure of...

humanized Jesse, Judy, and Kelvin, in all their imperfect, corruptible, and contemptible glory, finding redemption in a cathartic and satisfying send-off." Scott...

authority – Louis XVI, for example – could be doomed to fall without being contemptible. The historical vision that he was developing, and which he expressed...

single ray of that lady's genius. The plot is confused, the incidents contemptible, and the language destitute of all characteristic propriety. - New London...

reader exactly what they expect to read". Clark's work was described as "contemptible" by Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey who regarded Clark as the most...

the cabinet on 24 August 1942 that "the soldiers regard Congress as contemptible politicians". Amery stated that within the Indian Army the general feeling...

fascism represented “the private interests of the most sinister and contemptible classes in Italy.” He soon came to the realization that he had overplayed...

which one thing is generally a trifle. There is no surer mark of a poor, contemptible, cowardly character than the inability to conduct disputes of this sort...

"I thank you, Lord Jesus Christ, that you have accounted me, the most contemptible and chief among sinners, worthy to lay down my life for your sake!"....

dweeb (a boringly conventional person), droob (an unprepossessing or contemptible person, esp. a man), and droog (a member of a gang: a young ruffian)...

Griggs (1872–1933), The Hindered Hand Martha Grimes (born 1931), The Old Contemptibles John Grisham (born 1955), The Firm Lauren Groff (born 1978), Fates and...

church south of Audinghen and the original design for reliefs of the Old Contemptibles memorial in Boulogne (in the end produced by Félix-Alexandre Desruelles)...

dominated everything, a most repulsive selfishness, a libertinism as contemptible as it was disgusting, little discretion when it came to acquiring money:...

Retrieved 26 September 2014. Stephen Totilo (5 November 2012). "The Contemptible Games Journalist: Why So Many People Don't Trust The Gaming Press (And...

'impartial outside experts' to settle our differences is, quite simply, contemptible. Such transparent chicanery would require scholars having limited acquaintance...

trichotomy temn-, tempt-  – Latin temnere contemn, contemnible, contempt, contemptible, contumacious, contumacy, contumelious, contumely tempor- time Latin...

structure of lies and mistruths, some of which I say are absolutely foul and contemptible". She claimed that the evidence against Puška‍—  including CCTV evidence...

Army is exhausted, we've enough petrol for 50 kilometres, ammunition is contemptible' and so on. In 1938, Prestwich married Menna Roberts, who was a historian...

way he was in the tale, for Mr. Lardner's Midge Kelly was as cruel and contemptible as they come. Looking at him in a movie would be a chore of extreme distaste...

civilians. They contrast the alacrity and satisfaction which attend each contemptible operation with the subterfuge and sloth which we have displayed in such...

case, to keep the subject clearly standing on its own narrow base of a contemptible insurrection without means or respectable leaders". It is an instruction...

and aischros an unfavour-able reaction ('disgraceful', 'repulsive', 'contemptible'). Dover states there is a distinction of aesthetic and the moral senses...

The Darling Buds, and The Young Gods were unjustly treated as "equally contemptible." In a scathing review for New Musical Express, the track was heavily...

your duty as governor, and evidences an unsportsmanlike, cowardly and contemptible frame of mind." To lighten the mood, Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson sent...

present: therefore old teachers are those that, taken from the past, find contemptible everything is produced in the present, and young people are stupid, and...

to the ground. [..] Fifteen months on, those opinions seem even more contemptible than they did at the time"Isabel Hilton in The Guardian Archived 10 July...

deficient in humour, and her conversational powers were by no means contemptible; but she, like the rest of the world, delighted in her husband's conversation...

Home Secretary Michael Howard branded the attacks as "cowardly and contemptible". Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Tony Buchanan called...

Our Hansen Sea-Cow was not only a living thing but a mean, irritable, contemptible, vengeful, mischievous, hateful living thing.... [it] loved to ride on...

like to see other people blown away by high-powered rifles. This is a contemptible motion picture." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety noted "above-average plotting...

Liam (15 March 2019). "Australian Senator Fraser Anning condemned for 'contemptible' comments on Christchurch terror attack". Fox News. Archived from the...

2018). "R. Kelly's Latest Song Is the Same Old Two-Step From the Most Contemptible Man in Music". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 25,...

with his own tweet calling Touma-Suleiman "a liar, anti-Semitic and contemptible." Touma-Suleiman deleted the tweet and claimed she had been "misled."...

scoundrel." Jeff's notably abrasive personality and vanity have made him a contemptible yet praised character. Jeff's initial demeanor, described by McHale as...

Niebuhr described him as "frivolous", Samuel Adrian Naber found him "contemptible", see Champlin, Edward (1980). "1–2". Fronto and Antonine Rome. Cambridge:...

1967, because of what Hitchens called "Prime Minister Harold Wilson's contemptible support for the war in Vietnam". Since then he stated he had "re-enlisted...

though he feels compelled to aid them because they are his future, albeit contemptible. They return the contempt, referring to him as "the dwarf", and fear...

commentary in vermilion ink by the emperor's own hand. Calling Zhengrui "contemptible and ridiculous", Qianlong ordered him to send Macartney's letter to the...

train-bands, under the governor of the province, which was the most contemptible, and frequently the most burdensome service, and on the lay Christians...

Manchester. p. 2. "Prescott labels Chumbas water stunt 'cowardly' and 'contemptible'". NME. 10 January 1998. Retrieved 31 January 2026. "Rockers aid dockers...

31 August 1970 Comedy Playhouse (Series 10) TV Series Ep. 6: "The Old Contemptible" 15 July 1970 Ep. 8: "Meter Maids" 5 August 1970 Z-Cars (Series 6) TV...

great honor to the blessed martyrs, whom they think to illustrate with contemptible little candles (de pilissimis cereolis). Jerome, the most influential...

41–42. (Internet Archive) "The hero of this tale, is altogether so contemptible that we suppose the portrait was intended for a caricature but the execution...

ministers "hired assassins" and "cowards" and said they were "guided by the contemptible Grishka Rasputin!" Stürmer and Alexander Protopopov asked in vain for...

desire both to be respectable and to be respected. We dread both to be contemptible and to be contemned. But, upon coming into the world, we soon find that...

officer cadet, but he was put off when he learned that the pay was "too contemptible to afford the common necessaries of life". He got back on the Plassey...

great honor to the blessed martyrs, whom they think to illustrate with contemptible little candles" (de vilissimis cereolis). Jerome, the most influential...

on the topic of freemasonry. In 1912, Wirth was criticized for the "contemptible act" of "revealing the secrets of a society to which he has been admitted...

his servant maid are hyperbolized, rendering their supposed love-match contemptible and absurd. The novel is a sustained parody of, and direct response to...

proposed new salary was then scaled back to £1,000. Marrable thought this a contemptible offer and resigned in February 1861. After his resignation, Marrable...

conservation many years." After Watson called the New Zealand government "contemptible" for allowing Japan to continue killing whales, Campbell called Watson...

scholars refer to such allegorising in the scholia as "inferior" or even "contemptible". As a result, these texts are now rarely read. Most Greek authors deeply...

following extraordinary passage: "And I can tell you this, you utterly contemptible little shit. On every morning that you wake up for the rest of your life...

spiritual, proper to pure, extraordinary people, who remain aloof from the contemptible things of this world, or at most tolerate them as something necessarily...

will rank in the history of New Zealand as one of the meanest and most contemptible episodes in our political life." However, Fraser's support failed to...

to join. The story tells how, with marvelous pluck, Tom meets all the contemptible means which her enemies employ in order to down her, they resorting even...

creationism: [The] Kurt Wise story is just plain pathetic – pathetic and contemptible. The wound, to his career and his life’s happiness, was self-inflicted...

a certain policy is led to believe that undesirable, subversive, or contemptible people support the same policy, then the members of the group may decide...

much-awaited title that he reluctantly accepted after he caught a very contemptible character, Gerald Shastri, in Maut Ki Chataan (موت کی چٹان). Hameed also...

attacked the remarks in parliament as "disgraceful" and "appalling and contemptible" and called for an apology, but senior colleagues Ron Boswell and John...

exhaustive formalism. The result was a society founded on a continuous yet contemptible melodrama. The other genial intuition is that of the fundamental unity...

attacking "the human dignity of others by reviling, maliciously making contemptible or slandering parts of the populace". "Germany places strict limits on...

preexisting Unix command British English slang, meaning a stupid or contemptible person An acronym for "global information tracker" (when it works) An...

of the Members of our Co., and some of them have effected to have a contemptible an opinion of his Philosophic abilities. It is true he is not a man of...

Emperor's prestige and dignity would have been considered as lowered to a contemptible degree, especially at a time when his policy to show high favours toward...

and wonderfully adapted to the genius of a warlike nation; but the contemptible language of the people about Callander, and to the east, is quite incapable...

says Lord B; I know you're writing the story of 'two sleazy, spivvy, contemptible people who enjoyed fraudulent and unjust elevation'. Well, he certainly...

album. Andre Gee of Complex referred to the album as "a project too contemptible to be evaluated on any musical scale", while Chris Murphy of Vulture...

explanations during the hearing about the Khmer Rouge as "cowardly and contemptible" and compared them to the justifications of the murder of Jews by Adolf...

proceedings—hence, tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good. And yet, in such a system, it is even...

Bernard Cazeneuve, the Interior Minister, called Dieudonné's remark "contemptible." The Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (CRIF)...

point has been described by historian Robert Harvey as "one of the most contemptible acts of any commander-in-chief in British naval history". While Gambier...

the blacksmiths were segregated from the larger populace and seen as contemptible. (...) No Teda/Daza would think of marrying a blacksmith. They are a...

Hutchison took an interest in the welfare of ex-soldiers, forming the Old Contemptibles Association and then taking a leading role in setting up the British...

surbordinating those interests to what, on this occasion, I consider to be contemptible party tactics." Following the fall of the government, a general election...

Britannica, Inc. p. 82. ISBN 0-85229-531-6. OCLC 36980410. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and...

debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." She has also compared liberal democracy to slavery by the government...

like herself from persecution. The character is reimagined as a mutant, contemptibly referred to as a taintblood by the various tribes of Atlantis. In pre-Crisis...

slang terms can be used : 1. As a term of abuse for someone or something contemptible, difficult or unpleasant. 2. Affectionately, as in 'you silly bugger'...

of Godliness v. There are only a few Godly vi. Consider How Vain and Contemptible Other This Are, About Which Persons Void of Godliness Busy Themselves...

Liberty GB Move to Contest Labour MP's Former Seat Branded 'Obscene' and 'Contemptible'". www.independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved...

Morning Calm", 1953; "Militant Don", 1963; and "Memoirs of an Academic Old Contemptible", 1971> British Library web site accessed 16 December 2018 Masters of...

literally true, it's true enough.) In terms of dreadful driving dynamics, contemptible aesthetics and torturous ergonomics, no other vehicles sold in America...

nature of the Chinese regime and its despicable means of suppression are contemptible, and it should be deterred by international public opinion." The Economist...

Flanders to the point at which the British Expeditionary Force - the 'Old Contemptibles' - took up the pick and the spade in the middle of September 1914. For...

case, to keep the subject clearly standing on its own narrow base of a contemptible insurrection without means or respectable leaders", an instruction Plunket...

which was formed for service in France and became known as the Old Contemptibles. The second army was provided by the approximately 246,000-strong Territorial...

(1996) The Bomber War (2001) The Battle of Normandy 1944 (2002) The Old Contemptibles: The British Expeditionary Force, 1914 (2004) Eighth Army 1939-45 (2004)...

or just a thingy) (UK: wotsit) douche or douchebag * an insult for a contemptible person (from the device for rinsing the vagina or anus) downspout pipe...

be horrified at this sordid episode in these amazing revelations of contemptible peacetime spy activities against a supposedly friendly nation! Hardy...

superstition, avoided all manual labour, which they considered humiliating and contemptible." The Somali Bantus belong to several ethnic groups, namely Majindo,...