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Meanings of despicable in English

Morally reprehensible.

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      1
      He is far, far above the rest of his despicable fellow men.
      The Flanders Panel
      2
      This love of peace was reckoned upon in the whole despicable game.
      New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginn...
      3
      Poor and despicable beings indeed, become the victims of the borrowing habit.
      A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Dau...
      4
      Cowardice, the most despicable of all emotions, held him in her grasp.
      Jane Cable
      5
      He strove to ruin me with my leaders in this despicable manner.
      The Cruise of the Jasper B.
      6
      Thirdly, you're a despicable human being who should have died at birth.
      Johannes cabal the necromancer
      7
      So, in fact, it appears to have seemed to our despicable companions.
      Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
      8
      It is sensationalism and bias in its most primitive and despicable forms.
      Ebony
      9
      Their society can be innocent only while it continues to be despicable.
      Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
      10
      And yet Burke Ranger was no despicable figure of manhood sitting there.
      The Top of the World
      11
      A more despicable method of attempting to arouse distrust I cannot imagine.
      The Ear in the Wall
      12
      Therefore nothing can really be mean, nothing despicable; nothing, however perverted, irredeemable.
      Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People
      13
      For him sleep was either out of reach or despicable, perhaps both.
      King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure
      14
      She would pronounce positively that her fancies were absurd and even despicable.
      Hilda Lessways
      15
      They were victims of a system inexorably certain to arouse despicable qualities.
      Great Fortunes from Railroads
      16
      The Tsar, on the other hand, he considered cowardly, false, and despicable.
      In the World War
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