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Recent Examples of contemptibly
At the time, liberalism’s leading intellectuals laughed off public annoyance at Obama’s lackluster performance, declaring that to expect big things from him was to believe—childishly, contemptibly—that the president was a kind of superhero.
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Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The movie vulgarly sexualizes youthful political ardor and, even more contemptibly, the very notion of racial justice.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Contemptibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemptibly. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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