Example Sentences

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"There are no excuses for what I did, nor can I adequately explain why I acted on these impulses so despicably at that time."

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024

Everybody's favorite despicably dark HBO satire has topped Emmy nominations with 27 nods including a history making three-way lead actor nomination for Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

But some companies certainly have behaved despicably regarding opioids, and if they committed fraud, or malpractice, or false advertising, or marketed defective products, they should be sued under laws against those specific behaviors.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

Is the open secret that men in power frequently behave despicably and with impunity?

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2018

True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë