Sentence example with the word 'contemptibly'

contemptibly

Last update: June 19, 2015


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The state debt was large, taxation was heavy, and industry was unsettled; worthless paper money was in circulation, yet some men demanded more; debtors were made desperate by prosecution; the state government seemed weak, the Federal government contemptibly so; the local courts would not, or from intimidation feared to, punish the turbulent, and demagogues encouraged ideas of popular power.   [Please select]

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'I know what it is,' Dicky said contemptibly.   [Please select]

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Yet have I lived to do it--contemptibly--in cold blood.   [Please select]

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"Ogden," said Peter gently, "you are behaving contemptibly and you know it."   [Please select]

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Changed to some contemptibly small process on which success depends.   [Please select]

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They appeared to her so absurdly inadequate, so contemptibly divorced from the primary interests of existence.   [Please select]

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"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."   [Please select]

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