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Whether people found Freud’s realist portraiture contemptibly conservative or reassuringly so depended, of course, on their taste and politics.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
Instead of flinging themselves off the stage and forming violent “pits,” New Yorkers pogoed, springing around the dance floor in a punk-rock ritual that he now found contemptibly quaint.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 2, 2015
They didn’t shun me, but they encouraged me to get help by trying Overeaters Anonymous—the most contemptibly named 12-step program of them all.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2012
Allies, especially in Western Europe, have adopted a somewhat schizophrenic line toward the U.S., first condemning its Viet Nam War policies as obnoxiously aggressive, now worrying its policies elsewhere are contemptibly weak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost every one of the radiant divinities could act cruelly or contemptibly.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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