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Example sentences for "despicable"

Lexicographically close words:
desperat; desperate; desperately; desperateness; desperation; despight; despisable; despise; despised; despiser
  1. But though these men may cant about negro-drivers, and tell what despicable creatures they are, who is it, I ask, that supplies them with the human beings that they are tearing asunder?

  2. Your despicable 'deductions,' as I suppose you call them!

  3. That makes him a still more despicable villain.

  4. He did not see anything despicable in the opinion then expressed.

  5. Cooper, then, was able to discover a despicable opinion where most people could find none, might he not have seen what he called a more despicable opinion in some remark equally innocent?

  6. It's because you have made up your mind to do something despicable and wicked.

  7. He had the highest idea of the bravery of his own men, and a despicable opinion of his enemies: he had hitherto had reason for both, and was confirmed in these notions by some of those who were nearest his person.

  8. And all the time Maud was here; her whole soul was filled with thankfulness to hear him speak these despicable falsehoods.

  9. Do you not deny me before society for the sake of 'its despicable prejudices'?

  10. But granted that it was so, granted that we taught you dissimulation to obtain certain necessary ends, should not common human gratitude have withheld you from betraying in such a despicable manner the men who trusted you?

  11. But I assure you the music here is no despicable compensation.

  12. We find no evidence to prove that there were ever really sectarian Çivaites who did not from the beginning practice brutal rites, or else soon become ascetics of the lowest and most despicable sort.

  13. Beyond that, I put nothing beneath the man--nothing too despicable for him to attempt in the effort to gain his own end and aim.

  14. The violence and threats of those despicable agents were open and undisguised, and exceeded all bounds; nay, some of them actually proceeded to personal violence, and began to lay hands upon me, to pull me down.

  15. The authorities used every laudable endeavour to make a disturbance, and create that danger which they pretended to apprehend; and the time-serving despicable editors of the Bristol Newspapers joined in the cry.

  16. We shall now enter upon the life of our poet, who will appear while we trace it, to have been in every respect the reverse of his father, genius excepted.

  17. He was honoured by that Prince with a gold medal and chain, was likewise knighted by him, and upon his majesty's death was one of those who gave their opinion in the opening of the king's body.

  18. Contempt, indeed, may be said to be its own object; for my own part, I know none so despicable as those who despise others.

  19. Indeed, if I had taken any liberties from the goodness you have been pleased to shew me, I should look upon myself as one of the most worthless and despicable of wretches; but nothing is farther from my thoughts.

  20. He had allowed her to get a glimpse of his inner self; had shown her that he was not the despicable creature she had thought him; had apparently been about to take her into his confidence.

  21. OE]colampadius and his friends had to contend with no despicable antagonists, in the presence of hearers, the majority of whom were prejudiced against them.

  22. The name of the despicable person who here sets forth his immature story is Kin Yen, and he is a native of Kia-Lu in the Province of Che-Kiang.

  23. Yet who knows how many poor despicable souls of our sex the worst of them has had to whine after him!

  24. And he sat, silently eating, unable to interrupt, feeling more guilty and despicable all the time.

  25. That "Will" was already an irritation to him, for it continually reminded him of the despicable part he was playing.

  26. All this about Canada being in front is a German "terminological inexactitude" which is so despicable that we in Canada are ashamed that it should be said of us.

  27. He is good in a charge and if he had not done the despicable things--the dreadful outrages which he has done--he could be admired as a fighting machine.

  28. Yes, let me hear at once, I beg you, how despicable you will render an unfortunate son in his father's eyes.

  29. I return only in order not to leave you one moment longer under a delusion with regard to me, which must make me despicable even in your eyes.

  30. Nothing that Harry had ever done seemed more despicable than the part that he had chosen to play.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "despicable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhorrent; abject; abominable; arrant; atrocious; awful; base; beastly; beggarly; blameworthy; brutal; cheap; cheesy; common; contemptible; crude; crummy; damnable; debased; deplorable; depraved; despicable; detestable; dire; dirty; disgraceful; disgusting; dishonorable; disreputable; dreadful; egregious; enormous; execrable; fetid; filthy; flagrant; forbidding; foul; fulsome; gaudy; grave; grievous; gross; hate; hateful; heinous; horrible; horrid; ignoble; infamous; lamentable; little; loathsome; lousy; low; malodorous; mangy; mean; measly; meretricious; miasmic; miserable; monstrous; nasty; nauseating; nefarious; noisome; notorious; noxious; objectionable; obnoxious; obscene; odious; offensive; outrageous; paltry; pathetic; petty; pitiful; poky; poor; rank; regrettable; repellent; reprehensible; reprobate; reptilian; repugnant; repulsive; revolting; rotten; rubbishy; sad; scabby; scandalous; scrubby; scurvy; servile; shabby; shameful; shocking; shoddy; sickening; small; sordid; sorry; squalid; stinking; terrible; trashy; twopenny; ugly; unclean; unmentionable; unworthy; valueless; vile; villainous; woeful; worst; worthless; wretched