Or showed respect to a manager whose decisions and style you found contemptible?

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In his verdict, the judge said the men were "contemptible and violent".

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He said the group agreed they should not urge Mr Assange to leave the embassy as that would make them "mercenary and contemptible individuals".

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It may no longer be a crime for con artists to pass themselves off as heroes, but one thing is certain -- it is contemptible.

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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury-to me these have always been contemptible.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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