Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deserving to be despised; despicable; contemptible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Despicable; contemptible.
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- adjective
Despicable ;contemptible .
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Examples
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August at the convention of treason he took the material where and as he found we see him trying hard to bring the money power of the union into his service, we find him extorting large sums for his political campaigns from the so-called despisable trusts, since then we became accustomed to look upon every man of wealth and the great industrials corporations who have been and are today of incalculable value and benefit to our national welfare, as nothing more or less than contemptible criminals, whom he offended in the most profane language during his crusade against them, if they refused to become a part of his machine.
The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey
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In my opinion, using the word cyclist in the context the article does can unintentionally promote the association of the word cyclist with the mental image of someone despisable or as someone you do not want to be.
We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola 2010
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Personally I haven't still read anything past The Omac Project I'm from Spain and it's being released now, here but I've been told that the final "abuse" on the Golden Age, Earth-2 spirit is despisable.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #142 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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An explosive beginning, lovable and despisable characters, questions of loyalty, moral inquisition all highlight the plot which comes to a rather abrupt end.
Reader reviews of The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith. 2004
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They have a great fishing trade here, as well for supply of the country as for merchandise, and the towns are not despisable.
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They have a great fishing trade here, as well for supply of the country as for merchandise, and the towns are not despisable.
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They have a great fishing trade here, as well for supply of the country as for merchandise, and the towns are not despisable.
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I've toed the track after your own leading, I'm jist as poor as ever, and ten times more despisable, -- I am, d-- n me; for I'm a white Injun, and there's nothing more despisable.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Page 166 would best answer this soil and climate, as he was thought no despisable gardener at home.
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Anything but resentment there would have been unnatural, not to say inhuman and despisable, in a daughter.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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