Simply because I am not quite so contemptible as you think me.

No, I shall not be so contemptible as to betray my friends.

And that was what she found so contemptible about most of them, really.

I would not have you neutral if I could, it is so contemptible.

Thy towering pride of heart also, and thy so contemptible vanity.

But you are so contemptible that I haven't the heart to punish you.

Harriet's claims to marry well are not so contemptible as you represent them.

Without this experience I never could have believed my species to be so contemptible.

I can't imagine how people can make themselves so contemptible.

They cannot even settle so contemptible an affair without me!

But there was something in this whole affair so contemptible that it hurt his pride.

If I had put in so contemptible a plea, you would have lost your cause.

I thought you an honest man, on the wrong side-nothingso contemptible as a spy.

I know nothing so contemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the indefensible.

Revealed by the weird light, the miserable countenance of the miser had never looked so contemptible.

Nor is their navy so contemptible as some have, either by conjecture or misinformation, represented it.