Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

The declaration is a contemptible face-saving exercise by WTO.

There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.