Or showed respect to a manager whose decisions and style you found contemptible?
But the persistent rumours that he is a Muslim contemptible though they are will remain a problem during the general election.
"What the Republicans are doing with this motion ... is contemptible, " Pelosi declared.
He acknowledged the difficulties caused by a "contemptible" anti-Islamic video made in the US depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a womaniser.
In his verdict, the judge said the men were "contemptible and violent".
He said the group agreed they should not urge Mr Assange to leave the embassy as that would make them "mercenary and contemptible individuals".
It may no longer be a crime for con artists to pass themselves off as heroes, but one thing is certain -- it is contemptible.
That is not to say that you are for the terrorists if you are against war, but to actively fight against your country is contemptible.
Still, his highhandedness when it comes to the constitutional responsibility of the Senate to play a real role in treaty-making seems particularly contemptuous, and contemptible.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury-to me these have always been contemptible.
But, in the social hierarchy of school, this host of miseries was overlooked in favor of a much more contemptible indignity: I wanted to be a writer.
"President Obama's allies continue to use discredited and dishonest attacks in a contemptible effort to conceal the administration's deplorable economic record, " Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in a statement.
Some Congressmen consistently voted against both the authorization and the funding, but those who opposed authorization and supported funding constitute the kind of contemptible, unprincipled hypocrites who ruin any nation.
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Unfortunately, the likes of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Il Sung are more apt to regard such unilateral restraint as contemptible weakness than a model for their nations.
For a man who was once a heartbeat and then some 500 votes away from the presidency to enrich himself by selling out his country in this fashion is not just contemptible.
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Jonathan Libby, a public defender representing Mr. Alvarez, said at oral arguments that while his client's lies may be contemptible, the harm they caused was too "diffuse" to punish with a criminal conviction.
Barney Frank went on to call her comments vile, contemptible, nonsense, and said that this would be - you know, arguing with this lady would be like arguing with a dining room table.
Their statements not only speak volumes about the degree to which Condi Rice's desperate bid for a "legacy" is now being clearly read as bullies always do: as evidence of contemptible and exploitable weakness.
This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the soldier-boy that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked Administration of a contemptible Government, too weak to arrest and punish him if he shall desert.
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