despicable
- deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
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Contemporary Examples of despicably
And, despicably, they used the memory of the four slain Americans as cover for their election-year political strategy.
As it turns out, they do so selfishly, obnoxiously, and despicably.
Historical Examples of despicably
I flattered myself I was not so despicably weak, for a woman.'
HeartseaseCharlotte M. Yonge
Despicably egotistical he had been in submitting to the chair, in not making one last wild break for freedom at that time.
The Affair of the BrainsAnthony Gilmore
But I own that I agree with him heartily in his opinion that "making a conjurer explain his tricks" is despicably poor fun.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2George Saintsbury
To show you how despicably I think of the business, I will here leave you presently, though I lose the pleasure of railing at you.
Thomas OtwayThomas Otway
I like it in the French style, all but the lait; that destroys the flavor, besides making it despicably weak.
despicable
- worthy of being despised; contemptible; mean