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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : des-pi-kuh-buhl, dih-spik-uh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛs pɪ kə bəl, dɪˈspɪk ə- |
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Définition of despicable
Origin :- 1550s, from Late Latin despicabilis, from Latin despicari "despise, disdain, look down on," from de- "down" (see de-) + spicare, variant of specere "to look" (see scope (n.1)).
- adj hateful; beyond contempt
- But side by side with these despicable men what heroism we saw!
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- She had just done a thing that was mean, or at least she had done a thing from a mean, a despicable motive.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- But despicable as his conduct had been, he underwent no hasty condemnation.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- The despicable methods he was adopting troubled him not in the least.
- Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
- I w-wouldn't have believed that anyone would be so despicable!
- Extract from : « Mary Rose of Mifflin » by Frances R. Sterrett
- Looks as if I was a pretty base, despicable specimen of a man, doesn't it?
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- A traitor is a despicable character, while a poltroon is only contemptible.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- I expected Lorand to smite that fair mouth for this despicable calumny.
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- Remember that Absalom's hair was not more splendid than his habits were despicable.
- Extract from : « The Wedding Ring » by T. De Witt Talmage
- To look at him was to feel that whatever his faults they were not despicable ones.
- Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
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