Despicable
adjective
Very unpleasant or bad, causing strong dislike.
He played a despicable character in the movie.
Often appears as...
- despicable act
- despicable character
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Disapproving
adjective
Very unpleasant or bad, causing strong dislike.
He played a despicable character in the movie.
Often appears as...
- despicable act
- despicable character
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Despicable invokes strong disapproval and often refers to actions that are morally wrong.
Stealing from charity is despicable.
Pro Tip 2/3Strength of Dislike
Use 'despicable' when feeling a powerful sense of hate or disgust, not just mild dislike.
Lying to her was a despicable thing to do.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensifying Collocations
'Despicable' is intensified when paired with words like 'utterly' or 'truly' to express extreme contempt.
His actions were truly despicable.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Despicable invokes strong disapproval and often refers to actions that are morally wrong.
Stealing from charity is despicable.
Pro Tip 2/3Strength of Dislike
Use 'despicable' when feeling a powerful sense of hate or disgust, not just mild dislike.
Lying to her was a despicable thing to do.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensifying Collocations
'Despicable' is intensified when paired with words like 'utterly' or 'truly' to express extreme contempt.
His actions were truly despicable.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Despicable invokes strong disapproval and often refers to actions that are morally wrong.
Stealing from charity is despicable.
Pro Tip 2/3Strength of Dislike
Use 'despicable' when feeling a powerful sense of hate or disgust, not just mild dislike.
Lying to her was a despicable thing to do.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensifying Collocations
'Despicable' is intensified when paired with words like 'utterly' or 'truly' to express extreme contempt.
His actions were truly despicable.
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Grave Robbers PIPE National...
five feet long with a t-handle at one end and a hook at the other and they literally would hook the body under the jaw and pierce the skin and then they would literally just pull the body right up out of that shaft and though their ghoulish practice was illegal and unethical they're despicable deeds help
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Mark Plotkin: What the...
asking for help. They were shot at, their malocas, their longhouses, were burned. Some of them were massacred. Using automatic weapons to slaughter uncontacted peoples is the single most despicable and disgusting human rights abuse
Video examples
Grave Robbers PIPE National...
five feet long with a t-handle at one end and a hook at the other and they literally would hook the body under the jaw and pierce the skin and then they would literally just pull the body right up out of that shaft and though their ghoulish practice was illegal and unethical they're despicable deeds help
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Mark Plotkin: What the...
asking for help. They were shot at, their malocas, their longhouses, were burned. Some of them were massacred. Using automatic weapons to slaughter uncontacted peoples is the single most despicable and disgusting human rights abuse
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Martin Scorsese
American Director
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
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Eric Bischoff
American Businessman
You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you're not. And if you're not, you're a heel: you're despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.
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Alice Walker
American Author
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.
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Frank McCourt
Irish Author
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
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Ryan Zinke
American Politician
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to anyone who serves honourably. I think it's despicable that a president would put veterans on his website and list them on an enemies list.
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Judith Martin
American Author
We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
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Tom Ellis
Welsh Actor
There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Len Wein
American Cartoonist
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Martin Scorsese
American Director
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
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Eric Bischoff
American Businessman
You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you're not. And if you're not, you're a heel: you're despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.
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Alice Walker
American Author
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.
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Frank McCourt
Irish Author
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
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Ryan Zinke
American Politician
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to anyone who serves honourably. I think it's despicable that a president would put veterans on his website and list them on an enemies list.
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Judith Martin
American Author
We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
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Tom Ellis
Welsh Actor
There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Len Wein
American Cartoonist
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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