Without generosity, benevolence, or charity, man would be a groveling, despicable creature.

Yes, yes, I was eternally dishonoured-thelowest, most despicable creature in all France.

I have never seen a more despicable creature than you.

And yet on this despicable creature my child's happiness and my child's life depend!

He was merely offering this despicable creature the means of escape from the world's contempt.

He is spoken of as a despicable creature.

He was-ugh!-themost despicable creature I've ever known.

I am a very mean, despicable creature.

I have been a despicable creature.

He had been a despicable creature.

My duty is clear; I should be the most despicable creature on earth did I hesitate to perform it.

Behold the despicable creature, raised all at once from dirt to opulence; from the lowest obscurity to the highest honors.

Behold the despicable creature, raised, all at once, from dirt to opulence; from the lowest obscurity to the highest honours.

I seemed to accept the general rule that a wife-stealer is a despicable creature, a thief, a vile, immoral wretch.

Merit is acquired by killing an enemy: by killing this despicable creature, thou shalt acquire great and true merit hereafter.'

What a despicable creature!