Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deserving of contempt or scorn; vile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be or deserves to be despised; contemptible; base; vile; worthless: applicable equally to persons and things: as, a despicable man; a despicable gift.
- Synonyms Paltry, Pitiful, etc. See
contemptible .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Fit or deserving to be
despised ;contemptible ;mean ;vile ;worthless
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective morally reprehensible
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Binyamin Netanyahu's robust statement placed what he described as a despicable act – which shattered the relative calm in the West Bank over recent months – at the centre of strenuous efforts by the US and European countries to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Binyamin Netanyahu calls on world to act after killing of Jewish settlers 2011
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Rutgers women's basketball players today blast Don Imus for what they call his despicable language about their team, but the players have agreed to meet with Imus to hear his point of view.
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CNN's Brooke Anderson has more on the arrest, Gibson's apology for what he calls despicable remarks and the alleged cover-up.
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He's apologizing for what he calls his despicable words after he was arrested for drunken driving.
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Police management on Thursday condemned what it described as despicable rumours about members of the board of trustees of the police medical aid scheme Polmed.
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Ismail defended the bombing of the SAAF headquarters by referring to what he described as the despicable conduct of the security forces which butchered children in Soweto in 1976.
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Out of what you call the despicable race of Negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery, 100,000 of them imported into the island within four years, unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other.
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Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David O. Stewart 2011
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Civil Protection Minister Michalis Chryssochoidis condemned what he called a despicable act of terrorism.
The Shad Plank 2010
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Civil Protection Minister Michalis Chryssochoidis condemned what he called a despicable act of terrorism.
Fore, right! NICHOLAS PAPHITIS 2010
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