Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their own consciences. Carelessness, when it results in inconvenience to others, is in itself an offence of no slight magnitude; but when the carelessness, becomes intentional carelessness, then the offence is one that deserves more than passing notice, and those who offend thus may well receive the highest contempt and odium of their fellows...
...With their Autner at the front, and with above half of the Harvard class crews, the city at which scoffing New York pokes fun can afford to treat her jeering rivals with silent contempt...
...very often in the habit of stating his own ideas, of which by the way he is very positive, without thinking it necessary to establish his views with solid facts, or with solid facts to refute the views of his opponents. Free traders as a rule express great contempt for their opponents, the protectionists, and smile in a pitying way at the follies and mistaken theories of the protectionists, often prefacing their remarks with the observation that really educated men can not possibly believe in protection. The protectionists, on the other hand, appeal to the tender side of their hearers...
...unwilling spirit, and carried on during a season of balls, operas, and theatres, skating rinks, etc., in a perfunctory manner, it is the duty of educators to speak out plainly, and to denounce everything that tends to render diplomas worthless, and bring colleges into contempt...
Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where...