Despicable
[dɪ'spɪkəb(ə)l;'despɪk-] or [dɪ'spɪkəbl]
Definition
(adj.) morally reprehensible; 'would do something as despicable as murder'; 'ugly crimes'; 'the vile development of slavery appalled them'; 'a slimy little liar' .
Checker: Lucille--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Contemptible, pitiful, base, mean, abject, vile, worthless, low, paltry.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONTEMPTIBLE]
Edited by Alexander
Definition
adj. deserving to be despised: contemptible: worthless.—ns. Des′picableness Despicabil′ity.—adv. Des′picably.
Editor: Mary
Examples
- Most despicable would it be to come for the sake of those sheep-faced Sunday scholars, and not for my sake or that long skeleton Moore's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For he was gradually attaining his object in life, and that, to Lily, was always less despicable than to miss it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To do this is to commit the sin of him who buried his talent in a napkin--despicable sluggard! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Girl, I would rather see you dead than the wife of that despicable coward, retorted the Demarch fiercely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Archer had always shared this view: in his heart he thought Lefferts despicable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He has run a course of despicable, commonplace profligacy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She is not a woman to be flattered because I made myself despicable--to believe that I must be true to her because I was a dastard to you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That which the word 'human' stood for was despicable and repugnant to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Mary