The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contemptibly \Con*tempt"i*bly\, adv. In a contemptible manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a contemptible manner.
WordNet
adv. in a contemptible manner
Usage examples of "contemptibly".
The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus—the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.
As Your Percipient Majesty will discern from the next following pages of our Aztec's chronicle, his people have always been contemptibly superstitious, seeing omens and portents not only where reasonable men see them—in the eclipse of the sun, for example—but also in everything from simple coincidences to commonplace phenomena of nature.
They had bows that were contemptibly small and held awkwardly cross ways, but which somehow propelled short arrows with incredible accuracy.
It is contemptibly small compared with our seventy millions of people.
And besides, this little fortune had come to seem contemptibly inadequate.
Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.