despicableness
- a word derived from despicable.
Example Sentences
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Lisa James directs with an eye for nuance, drawing out the worst of the characters' behavior yet not letting them descend into sheer despicableness.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2018
Human despicableness informs so many of our favorite shows, to the degree that we become largely inured to the moral shortcomings of antiheroes.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2016
You have watched shows like this before and dealt with similar characters: They’re made to be despicable so that we will relate to some despicableness deep within ourselves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2015
Jack Gleeson was blessed with an incredibly punchable sneer, but his master stroke, as an actor, was to base Joffrey’s despicableness in universally recognizable character faults.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2014
He had no eye, like Dante's, for the vileness, the cruelty, the utter despicableness to which humanity may be moulded.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson by Morley, John
