despicable

Speech parts

1. despicable - Noun

2. despicable - Adjective

3. despicable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

worthless vile low base mean ugly unworthy wretched slimy sordid contemptible satanic basilisk no-good rotten

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Antonyms

honorable galilee august grand swish semite

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Phrases with the word

despicable person more despicable despicable people less despicable despicable mass

Examples

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. François Fénelon

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. John D. Rockefeller

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus

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. Frank McCourt

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. William Hazlitt

Close letter words and terms

desperateness desperation despicability despicable mass despicable people despicable person