contemptibleness

But isn't the What's Your Goal scheme hobbled by the sheer contemptibleness of so much modern football – how it's in hock to money-grubbers, divorced from its working-class roots, how its leading practitioners are foul-mouthed multi-millionaires, how even its organising bodies are mired in corruption allegations?

The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan 2011

But isn't the What's Your Goal scheme hobbled by the sheer contemptibleness of so much modern football – how it's in hock to money-grubbers, divorced from its working-class roots, how its leading practitioners are foul-mouthed multi-millionaires, how even its organising bodies are mired in corruption allegations?

The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan 2011

My most hated word is staring back at me, in utter contemptibleness.

Why aren't we ashamed of fawning over Obama? Ann Althouse 2007

I am inclined to set down the events of my little world for the past week; that in days to come, should it prove that I have been following "cunningly devised fables," I may beware of such entanglements again; and that if they be found a guidance from above, their contemptibleness and seeming folly may be shown to be in wisdom.

A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall

Any such attempt, however, was an absurdity, because Marxism had not been victorious thanks to the superior genius and personal significance of an individual, but by the boundless contemptibleness, the cowardly failure of the bourgeois world.

Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

When she spoke of Danish women, the stage of their development and their position in law, their apathy and the contemptibleness of the men, whether these latter were despots, pedants, or self-sufficient Christians, she made me a sharer of her point of view; our hearts glowed with the same flame.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

Danish women, the stage of their development and their position in law, their apathy and the contemptibleness of the men, whether these latter were despots, pedants, or self-sufficient Christians, she made me a sharer of her point of view; our hearts glowed with the same flame.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

And the great fact of all is the contemptibleness of average humanity.

Thyrza George Gissing 1880

I can never forget, although I may forgive, the disgraceful language which some of these individuals have used with regard to this matter; and my experiences in the army will not have been in vain, even if they have taught me nothing more than the utter contemptibleness of some individuals, whom it would be a stretch of courtesy to call gentlemen.

The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She Participated as a Confederate Officer; of Her Perilous Performances as a Spy, as a Bearer of Despatches, as a Secret-Service Agent, and as a Blockade-Runner; of Her Adventures Behind the Scenes at Washington, including the Bond Swindle; of her Career as a Bounty and Substitute Broker in New York; of Her Travels in Europe and South America; Her Mining Adventures on the Pacific Slope; Her Residence among the Mormons; Her Love Affairs, Courtships, Marriages, &c., &c. 1876

On the whole, speaking generally, it may just have been the humanness, all-too-humanness of the modern philosophers themselves, in short, their contemptibleness, which has injured most radically the reverence for philosophy and opened the doors to the instinct of the populace.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872