“When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.”

“I would growl contemptuously at my reflection in the bathroom mirror each morning.”

“She opened her eyes, staring contemptuously into the shadows that greeted her.”

“Even the British social history volumes have declared that we have been treated shamefully and contemptibly.”

“They made contemptibly lukewarm, stewed tea, not the burning hot, intensely flavoured medicinal liquid that made you gasp as you sipped it.”

“The ending isn't contemptibly bad, but it lacks the spark of the rest of the film.”