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Meanings of despicability in English

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bastardia

Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.

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        Examples for "baseness"
        1
        He exalted the dignity of labor, and scorned all baseness and lies.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
        2
        They are not in love with baseness: it is forced upon them.
        The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
        3
        In the discovery of her baseness, she had made a poor figure.
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
        4
        Upon the line of baseness,-thedeserter is placed next to the traitor.
        Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
        5
        When Parker painted the moral baseness of the times, men acquiesced shamefacedly.
        Frederick Douglass / A Biography
        1
        For her it was the last depth of sordidness and the commonplace.
        The Lion's Share
        2
        The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness.
        Moby Dick
        3
        This soul poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
        Anarchism and Other Essays
        4
        But, increasing in seriousness, it must not be allowed to increase in sordidness.
        Mushrooms on the Moor
        5
        There seemed a stark sordidness in the situation that repelled me.
        The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
        1
        I had not had in mind when I spoke the contemptibility of suicide to these people.
        The Left Hand of Darkness
        2
        The old ballad, "I wish I were where Helen lies," is silly to contemptibility.
        The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
        3
        Neutrality, on the uncertainty and contemptibility of.
        Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
        4
        In its way it was a tragedy-thegrimmest of all-forits dominant note was the contemptibility of human nature.
        The Grey Lady
        5
        Cowardice, political, contemptibility of.
        Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
        Usage of despicability in English
        1
        O the meanness, the despicability of men who begrudge a woman the right to work anywhere, in any honorable calling!
        The Abominations of Modern Society
        2
        John Milton almost glorified him by witchery of description, but he is the concentration of all meanness and of all despicability.
        New Tabernacle Sermons
        3
        "What acts of petty despicability have you wrought this day?"
        Johannes cabal the necromancer
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        Despicability through the time