Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DESPICABLE

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Definitions of DESPICABLE

1. A wretched or wicked person.
2. Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.

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Examples of Using DESPICABLE in a Sentence

• Rather, the word usually refers to a mean, despicable, or vicious person; or any particularly difficult or frustrating situation.
• A 25-foot tall grain silo was painted to look like a minion from the Despicable Me movie on a nearby rural farm in 2016.
• In the 2000s, Bratt appeared in Miss Congeniality (2000), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Catwoman (2004), Trucker (2008), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Snitch (2013), Coco (2017), among other films.
• Another sums up Vonnegut's intention as to expose "Lust for money by despicable people whose only comic attribute is the glee with which the author has created petty indignities for them to suffer".
• In November 2011, the press reported that Mercer had been taped making disparaging remarks about David Cameron, calling him "despicable" and describing him as an "arse" and "the worst politician in British history since William Gladstone".
• He went over to their table and immediately spouted forth a tirade of invective, calling them 'the two most despicable cunts' he'd ever met in the industry.
• She also voices Margo in the Despicable Me film series (2010–present), appeared in the films The Intruders (2015), 3022 (2019), North Hollywood (2021), Drugstore June (2024), and Mother of the Bride (2024), and hosts the CBS series Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove (2019–present).
• Star Fox 2 also introduces a team of rival mercenary pilots, Star Wolf, which includes Wolf O'Donnell, leader of Star Wolf and a despicable criminal, Leon Powalski, an inscrutable and sinister chameleon, Pigma Dengar, an arrogant and selfish pig who is a former member of the Star Fox team before betraying them, and Algy, a devious creature with incredible precision aim.
• In October 2008, just before the 2008 NLCS, McCarver made public his feelings about Manny Ramirez, calling him "despicable" and criticizing him for his sloppy, lazy play in Boston and how he had suddenly turned it around in Los Angeles.
• Curiously, he seems to have been pardoned again and again for his misdeeds, but he left Mantua again "without permission, and for despicable reasons", as recorded in a letter from one of the Gonzaga family, his employers.
• In 2010 Carell starred with Tina Fey in Date Night and voiced Gru, the main character in the Universal CGI film Despicable Me along with Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig, and Julie Andrews.
• " Israeli Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, released a statement condemning the attack, saying "The torching of the church is a cowardly and despicable act which contradicts Israel's basic values.
• deserve special criticism and condemnation by the world community for these despicable acts", while the Algerian FLN stated that "This barbarity is condemned by all religions, laws and morals of humanity.
• The Malamati is one for whom the doctrine of "spiritual states" is fraught with subtle deceptions of the most despicable kind; he despises personal piety, not because he is focused on the perceptions or reactions of people, but as a consistent involuntary witness of his own "pious hypocrisy".
• The book was by This Is Us writer and producer Bekah Brunstetter and the music and lyrics were written by Cinco Paul, who is known for his contributions to the Despicable Me franchise.
• The very idea of toleration is despicable; it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above the rest to grant indulgence, whereas all should be equally free, Jews, Turks, Pagans and Christians.
• Ex turpi causa non oritur actio is the illegality defence, the Latin for "no right of action arises from a despicable cause".
• He called the storming a "despicable and dangerous attack on our democracy" and "a coup by domestic terrorists", He called fellow Montana senator Steve Daines an "enabler" of the attack, as Daines supported Trump's unproven voter fraud claims.
• Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called the film "despicable", saying that the "movie devolves into hateful propaganda" and "its muddled legal arguments come off as cover for a kind of righteous blood lust".
• He was inspired by the Machiavellian protagonist of Profit, but given even more despicable antagonists (just as variola is more virulent than varicella), thus making players willing to go along with his schemes.

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