I think a whipping would suit better your contemptibility.
"A Tar-Heel Baron"
Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
I feel that you have treated this Court with the greatest contemptibility!"
"The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On"
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
This intensity of emotion gives them an elevation and a heroic interest that outlasts contemptibility or pathos.
"Tragedy"
Ashley H. Thorndike