How To Use Despicable In A Sentence

I was a student, and the way they dealt with students was despicable.
He's apologizing for what he calls his despicable words after he was arrested for drunken driving. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006
Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Whoever strives to know learns that no human lore is despicable.
He is vile and despicable. The Sun

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I felt meaner, and lowlier and more despicable than the worms. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Then I did a despicable thing. ‘Well, Peter Sellers is dead,’ I said with a bitchery equal to hers.
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
They all wanted to appear to be respectable members of society, while all the time undermining that with their despicable acts. The Sun
The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
A despicable villain tempts a sinner and lures him into sin, alienation, and damnation.
Much the same fate has apparently befallen many other fairly despicable celebrities.
These were so continuously misleading and disingenuous that the lawyer politicaster who played such a rôle at Paris seemed despicable to the soldiery, and "rogue of a lawyer" was almost synonymous to the military mind with place-holder and civil ruler. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
This was a respectable newspaper and not another of those despicable rags printed in other towns.
He is a robber baron who made his money through despicable behavior and monopolism.
The presence of God in humanity is a more difficult concept for me, since man is obviously capable of despicable evil, either individually or stamped with the imprimatur of the state. I saw TDVC and I almost lost my faith...
He was despicable, missing teeth and looking very shaggy with the messiest mound of hair resting atop his head.
In other words, this is a revenge movie, which makes us the despicable, deserving victims.
Civil Protection Minister Michalis Chryssochoidis condemned what he called a despicable act of terrorism. The Shad Plank
Out of what you call the despicable race of Negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery, 100,000 of them imported into the island within four years, unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
It was a despicable crime and we are determined to do all that we can over the next few days to bring this to an early successful resolution.
To fail was considered despicable.
I must say it's quite refreshing to see a badger that is quite so despicable. Times, Sunday Times
To take advantage of the hopeless is truly despicable, but to prey on the helpless, whether directly or indirectly, is criminal.
The word ‘despicable’ is mild in comparison with other descriptions that have come to my notice.
He manages to do or say something really annoying and despicable so often that it's wearisome.
Their behaviour was despicable and offensive. The Sun
The Minister said the bombing was a despicable crime.
Police have described the crime as despicable and urged members of the public to help them catch the callous thief.
The central anti-hero, Johnny, embodies all that is charming and despicable in a man.
He said the issue needed cool heads but was currently being raised for political expedience, which he condemned as ‘despicable’.
A 2006 Washington Post article reports Baghdad Family Court Judge Salim al-Moussawi labeled divorce “the most despicable ‘hallal,’” meaning the worst thing permissible under Islam. Tug of War: Iraq��s Divorce Rate Up Since Invasion Began
The attacks are a despicable crime that will horrify anyone with any shred of decency or humanity.
Lil Debbie is having the vapors because even conservative columnists wrote nice things about Obama's magnificent campaign and honest things about McCain's despicable campaign. Coulter, Drudge, Limbaugh and the House Of Cronkite - Swampland - TIME.com
His ideas were bigoted and hateful, and the tactic of killing civilians is despicable (I'm not favorably disposed in general toward killing anyone at all if it can be avoided).
The portrait of the men as fun-loving rogues is incommensurate with their despicable actions.
I must say it's quite refreshing to see a badger that is quite so despicable. Times, Sunday Times
Can they be so dastardly and despicable as to attack the president during a presidential campaign?
Why can't the majority simply call the blackmailer's bluff - let them filibuster until the cows come home and let the public outrage over their despicable, undemocratic behavior build up over the weeks. Do or Die: The Six Senators Who Will Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform
From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked.
The roads have been in despicable condition for years and markings do not seem to exist at all.
How could anyone be that despicable and cruel? Times, Sunday Times
Rutgers women's basketball players today blast Don Imus for what they call his despicable language about their team, but the players have agreed to meet with Imus to hear his point of view. CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2007
Iago and his despicable sidekick Roderigo refer to Othello as 'the thick-lips', 'an old black ram' who is 'tupping' a 'white ewe' (that is to say, Brabantio's white daughter Desdemona), and a 'Barbary horse' whose animalistic coupling with Desdemona will beget a generation of creatures half human and half horse. Shakespeare
Their taste in literature he regarded as despicable.
We ask you not to allow the despicable act of one person to stain the reputation of an entire community of good, hard-working people.
Their views are vile and despicable. The Sun
This would encourage the victims to come forward and do much to bring an end to this type of despicable organised crime.
There are few offenders more despicable than criminals who prey on the elderly and infirm.
Despicable thieves have been raiding Salisbury's charity shops, taking cash and causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage.
Many of the people who were subjected to torture are quite "unrepentant" and despicable people. Neff and Marty on torture and the church | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
This is a despicable fraud . Just imagine that he has the effrontery to say it.
All right, that's a pretty despicable thing to say and I'm restraining myself because you're a friend.
After years of feeling like an outsider in the house of his despicable Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker James has finally found a place where he belon more….. Planet-x.com.au » AudioBooks Roald
I remember that a large number of my contemporaries, including yours truly, would get blotto (you're right, it's a wonderful word Kevin) and sometimes do some truly despicable things.
All of these characters - if we can indeed call them that - are despicable louses that lie, cheat, and backstab each other in the name of comedy and TV ratings.
The way people across the district were left stranded is totally despicable.
In fact, the Cossack regards the Russian peasant as a foreign, outlandish, despicable creature.
Can’tor is right up there with the most despicable of the GOP losers. Think Progress » Cantor Opens The Door To GOP Rejecting Obama’s Bipartisan Health Care Meeting
But these demands to "denounce" are straight out of a Soviet show trial, and are despicable. Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where It Suited Him"
As for all these hollywood types who are now painting him s the victim they are despicable I wonder howe they would feel if it was their child joseph sparks Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 09/28/09
I find this behaviour despicable and dishonest. Times, Sunday Times
Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike.
Are these two acts of despicable violence very different? Times, Sunday Times
See what reason we have to honour those that fear the Lord; how mean and despicable soever the saints now appear in the eye of the world, and how much contempt soever is poured upon them; they are the saints of the Most High; they are near and dear to God, and he owns them for his, and judgment is given to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Let us at least see our courts make an example of these despicable criminals.
Of course she has not changed, she is the same despicable character she was in childhood.
Mr Callely, who was banned from the Seanad for 20 days without pay for deliberately misrepresenting his normal place of residence to claim travel expenses, claimed he had been painted as a "chancer" and "a rogue" and "thoroughly despicable". Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
It is a despicable act. The Sun
They should know that yelling at a woman and making her fear she was in harm is no excuse -- it is despicable and unbecoming of an elected official and a candidate for Congress. Kellam- Guilty means "Not Convicted"
… Minnesota residents have a chance Wednesday to get a look at one of the biggest names of the 2008 presidential campaign – and maybe take a glimpse into the future … which would be guarantied very dim with these despicable figures! GOP stars set for Wednesday rally
She accused the defendants of despicable behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Varmints, those troublesome, unpleasant or despicable animals, include coyotes, fox, raccoons, ground hogs, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, jackrabbits and other small rodents.
To pretend would be despicable - or would it?
Police have condemned the theft from an elderly widow as despicable.
In a perverse sense, it is more honest, where Eliot sneaks a couple of loathsome Jewish portraitures into his poetry, distorted so grossly that they are obviously despicable.
Despicable villains insinuate themselves into the MacDonalds 'homes, and a coven of strange old hags straight from Shakespeare's Scottish play enter stage left to spin oblique prophesies. Susan Fletcher's "Corrag," reviewed by Ron Charles
From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked.
At least he's skiing and not cranking heroin or doing something despicable.
This is a despicable fraud . Just imagine that he has the effrontery to say it.
Liberal, beneficent, and traditional ideas have returned to their rightful place through the dispersal of the odious and despicable factions which sought to overawe the Councils.
We have decided that those that are motivated to kill because of racism or ethnicism are more worthy of condemnation than those that kill for pecuniary gain, or for other motives which we do not find as despicable as racism or ethnicism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is “Genocide” Really Worse than “Mere” Mass Murder?
Yellow card for Mauricio Solis for a despicable hack on Edison Mendez.
But for such a callous and despicable crime he should have been horsewhipped. The Sun
This is the most severe criticism offered by any journalist of the despicable, non-stop lies of the military propaganda endeavor.
His epigrams (most of which are contained in _The Scourge of Folly_, undated, like others of his books) are by no means despicable; the Welsh ancestors, whom he did not fail to commemorate, seem to have endowed him with some of that faculty for lampooning and "flyting" which distinguished the Celtic race. A History of Elizabethan Literature
CNN's Brooke Anderson has more on the arrest, Gibson's apology for what he calls despicable remarks and the alleged cover-up. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006
Among other equally despicable practices associated with this day was the lashing of young women by two young men, clad only in a bit of goatskin and wielding goatskin thongs, who had been smeared with blood of sacrificial goats and dogs.
She lies, she distorts, she fabricates history — a despicable woman with no redeeming quality. Think Progress » Liz Cheney Airs Hypocritical Attack Ad On Obama For Waiting ‘100 Hours’ To Respond To Terror Plot
Their views are vile and despicable. The Sun
would do something as despicable as murder
As for his revelations about the despicable claims that he is not legitimate, one can only say bravissimo!
There is certainly a category difference, but I for one would prefer not to live in a society in which Harvard deans said things like, “Those who profess Judaism are despicable morons,” or in which leaders of the bar urged law firms not to hire people who profess Judaism, even though I agree that such behavior would be categorically from the government killing those who profess Judaism. The Volokh Conspiracy » 4. On a Bus in Kiev
In Essays on Mexican Art, he questions whether someone could be both a great artist and ‘a despicable cur.’
Detectives are describing the mugging as ‘despicable’ and have issued an urgent appeal for information.
The manipulation of donated aid resources is a most despicable moral crime.
He's despicable, but I read him anyway because he always had some dishy gossip. He who must not be paid attention
Ashley was everything Rene was not; an honor student with seemingly unmeasurable athletic and musical talent, as well as a despicable, eternally cheerful disposition.
I always consider that the vulgar aims people pursuit vehemently - property, vainglory and extravagance - are despicable.
"This was an absolutely despicable and cowardly act, " added Mr Wood.
I continue to think it was a despicable, utterly unjustifiable act, and even more so in the case of those others on the list who were merely accused.
Police said: 'This was a despicable crime carried out against an extremely vulnerable woman. The Sun
The subsequent debacle of all three is farcical as well as despicable.
This move was despicable, an invasion of privacy, and a form of stalking, and should be illegal.
This may be one of the most despicable displays of the absence of supervision, especially considering that supervision is supposed to be a benefit of organized sports. Organized Sports Teaches Us Nothing | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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The central anti-hero, Johnny, embodies all that is charming and despicable in a man.
He said:'It was a very sad and despicable act. The Sun
His behaviour is despicable and I am still pondering whether to publish. The Sun
Police management on Thursday condemned what it described as despicable rumours about members of the board of trustees of the police medical aid scheme Polmed. ANC Daily News Briefing
What kind of lowlife trash could concieve such a despicable act. Gay/Lesbian Forum
If you really think that, then although I do not think you are inferior, I do think you are despicable. blender: Is this all that different than John McCain joking about bombing Iran to rile up the base for political gain? The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
This is truly disgusting stuff - morally despicable and professionally disreputable.
The thing about pure causes - that glorious end that justifies despicable means - is that they tarnish so easily in the heat of battle.
And in the midst of all these solitary resignations and unseen sacrifices, she did not respect herself any more than the world respected her, but I believe thought in her heart that she was a poor-spirited, despicable little creature, whose luck in life was only too good for her merits. Vanity Fair
That said, Heinlein’s politics were sometimes pretty despicable in ways which make the label understandable: he often treats women as nice-but-dim home-makers but then again, see the pilots in Starship Troopers; he admires ruthless capability and doesn’t have much time for pity or mercy; he’s a social darwinist or something close to it. The Zombie Robert Heinlein Rises From the Grave Yet Again to Annoy the Politically Correct « Whatever
I find this behaviour despicable and dishonest. Times, Sunday Times
I have a confession to make: I have recently been engaged in the unwholesome and despicable act of spying.
To steal someone's physical, earthly belongings is bad enough, but to steal honor and personal achievement is one of the basest, most despicable ways of treating another human being. Heroes or Villains
Despite some of the despicable things she's done, we hope she'll find a little transcendence in the world of cads, cowards and creeps that surround her.
Police have condemned the theft from an elderly widow as despicable.
Lies for no good reason are despicable and should be avoided at all costs.
It is even more despicable that there are some people who are prepared to listen.
I started down the road toward the Enchanted Forest, and toward the despicable enchantress that was probably awaiting my arrival.
Madeleine Albright had the courage to go to Pakistan and denounce the Pakistani-allied Taliban in 1998 for "their despicable treatment of women and children andtheir general lack of respect for human dignity. What Are Little Girls Made Of | ATTACKERMAN
Are there any clues as to what drove him to commit history's most despicable act? Christianity Today
Mark began to feel that he really had done something praiseworthy, and that the "daub" was not so despicable after all. Moods
A despicable attack of blatant hatred has failed completely to tear us apart.
And I imagine that you hold yourself above those despicable wretches?
The men are despicable looking people, of small stature, of a colour between black and yellow, which we call olive, having voices like women, and long black hair flowing on their shoulders. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
He was a generally despicable character, always loitering near his betters like a poisonous cloud, seeking only to advance his own pathetic powers.
The couple nodded in agreement with her, and I became aware that I had somehow stumbled across a house of covert dissidents who I'd always been told were the most abominable and despicable of all people.
Apparently she saw a hen dispatch and consume a mouse and B.'s decided chickens are despicable cannibals - or at least the ones L. raises.
This French mockumentary is blandly violent, following the quotidian activities of its despicable yet oddly loveable lead character…
There are few offenders more despicable than criminals who prey on the elderly and infirm.
That Tyson chose the most flagrant, revolting and despicable way to cheat says something about the basic character of the man.
It was despicable of her to lie about her friend.
This car belonged to a pensioner who has difficulty walking and, because of this despicable act, is now housebound.
Somehow, perhaps because sexism is still tolerated in a way that racism is not, “shiksa” is more acceptable than the equally despicable “shvartze.” Sha With The Shiksa! | Jewschool
The stepmother loathes her late husband’s offspring and detests sharing the fruits of her deceased husband’s barony, which is beneath her needs as it is She also wants to punish Evelinde for being the brave daughter of her despicable dead spouse; so assumes the Scottish aristocratic barbarian will be a perfect brute for Evelinde. Devil of the Highlands-Lynsay Sands « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Laughably inept; detestably despicable: ladies and gentlemen … the President of the United States! Remember Honduras? Obama does, and he hasn’t given up trying to destabilize the country
That doesn't say it all, but it's a message worth sending to the people most directly responsible for perpetrating this despicable act of aggression.
Some of them might even be, to quote anil dash, "despicable criminals of the worst sort". President Obama's Watch - Anil Dash
The thousands of civilians in Nanking, China who were killed in despicable ways by the Japanese were not the only ones. How Torture Helped the Allies in WWII
He's a considerably despicable anti-hero, and a more loathsome character is scarcely imaginable.
Binyamin Netanyahu's robust statement placed what he described as a despicable act – which shattered the relative calm in the West Bank over recent months – at the centre of strenuous efforts by the US and European countries to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Binyamin Netanyahu calls on world to act after killing of Jewish settlers
In despair, many seem to have passively thrown up their hands and resigned themselves to observation of these despicable indecencies as they pass by.
The way the council acts is despicable and should not be allowed.
A police spokeswoman said: 'These are despicable crimes. The Sun
It is despicable to desert your children.
I'd like to say I wrote Lost on Treasure Island because I hungered for knowledge, and the liberation that knowledge would bring, because writing about one's more desperate and despicable maneuvers helps one to see oneself with clarity; that writing honestly--or at least attempting to write honestly--about one's sleazier misdeeds and slimier general misconduct makes one less likely to engage in such misdeeds and misconduct again. Steve Friedman: Reasons not to Write a Memoir (but why I did any way)
Then I decided that I would show up and let you know what I thought of such despicable, underhanded behaviour. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
KCNA, in its commentary, criticised what it called a deluge of "despicable" reports suggesting serious weaknesses in the communist state. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
He soon found himself involved in one of the most despicable trades of those days - slavery.
This is the most severe criticism offered by any journalist of the despicable, non-stop lies of the military propaganda endeavor.
The deal he brokered with Dirty Harry for his health care vote that throws the Medicare Advantage recipients under the bus, except those in the very wealthy and the very blue counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties is despicable. 2010 Dem Retirement Watch: Who’s your favorite? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
I think it's absolutely despicable that anyone could stoop so low as to steal something from a children's ward.
Rochester Fire Chief John Caufield called the arsons "despicable. TOP STORIES - YNN, Your News Now
He is vile and despicable. The Sun
When that act is not completed with the intention of gaining money, then the crime is particularly despicable. The Sun
Truth be told, I've generally found your average convicted felon is a hell of a lot more decent than your average prison guard, who are allmost uniformly some of the most vile & despicable people I have ever met. Sound Politics: "The year of the felon"
Of all the shabby, shameful, disgraceful, despicable political acts, this was as bad as they get.
They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor.
If women knew that their spite will go unrewarded, perhaps fewer would stoop to this despicable, and unforgivable, crime.
But now, for no reason, I am the fucking worst, most despicable Antichrist of comedy.
Governor Koong's next despicable plot to impress the Empire involved poisoning the Umboo countryside with the biological agent, rooze.
Ismail defended the bombing of the SAAF headquarters by referring to what he described as the despicable conduct of the security forces which butchered children in Soweto in 1976. ANC Daily News Briefing
she screamed and began punching his chest, ‘You're despicable and heartless and ugh!’
These are foolish and despicable crimes, often carried out by youngsters from the area in which the school is based.
I wish that Wilson and all of the other crude, despicable, fear and hate-mongering wing-nuts would move to Texas and secede from the Union. House Democrats plan vote to admonish Wilson
The dogfighting industry is cruel and despicable. Houston Chronicle
This shows inhumanity because it is despicable to convict a man of a crime of which you know he is innocent.
Will it be believed that the governor of such a house as this, is appointed, and deposed, and changed perpetually, as Parties fluctuate and vary, and as their despicable weathercocks are blown this way or that? American Notes for General Circulation
Regardless of her politics and whether you like her or not, this ‘despicable auld boot’ as you have chosen to describe her, has earned her place in British and indeed world history.
That would be truly despicable of the Senate to allow his reputation to be permanently besmirched.
That she's abandoning a decent husband because he doesn't fit with the literati and power-brokers among whom she now flits is both despicable and inevitable.
At least if their hateful, despicable views are aired they can be seen publicly for the idiots they are, but if suppressed they feed on fear and misplaced anger and that's how they grow.
It is a kind of silverling of sorts that despicable Selig Harrison, the leftwing political hack who has been a tireless apologist for N. Korea, is no longer solicited for his opinion in MSM. Latest Articles
Perhaps the despicable Horst knows whose hand it is and that he will use that knowledge to force Marie's submission.
Is there some despicable attempt to establish patriliny of the participants going on here? Kafila
‘You despicable little worm,’ he snarled as he stomped into the house one day.
They said his actions were more wicked and despicable than earlier claims of a foreign hostess forcing Chinese female workers to kowtow and a security guard frisking female workers.
I found it an intolerable nuisance, in the deeps of dreams across space and time, to be haled back to the sordid present by a despicable prison doctor pressing water to my lips. Chapter 18
The tragedy in Arizona was despicable, but we cannot overreact or react in a manner unbefitting our free society. OG Oyiborhoro: Don't Politicize Arizona
It always left him feeling awful and despicable and very, terribly lonely.
This is truly disgusting stuff - morally despicable and professionally disreputable.
This was a despicable crime. Times, Sunday Times
THE rioters and looters are despicable. The Sun
It was formed only of slabs and bark; yet the interstices of the walls being filled in with mud, and the whole of the interior whitewashed with pipeclay, of which there was abundance near, it produced no despicable effect by candlelight. Ralph Rashleigh
Her campaign's latest ad, attacking Reid for his support of the DREAM Act, which Greg mentioned earlier in his roundup, is as despicable as it is desperate. Sharron Angle's 'Willie Horton' ad
Johnson (_Works_, vi. 198) calls Junius 'one of the few writers of his despicable faction whose name does not disgrace the page of an opponent.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
Cheney, however despicable and soulless, is the man in charge. Think Progress » Kristof:
'Despicable Me 2' In The Works, Illumination To Become An Animation Powerhouse? cinematical: Jokey wise-ass answers are allowed, but offer some real ones too: what would you like to see more of on @cinematical? Cinematical
On the whole, the cast does a very nice job with their superficial characters and makes them charming, funny, and/or despicable as needed.
Despite the fact that American films are often among the top box-office draws — currently, "Despicable Me" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" — there remain a few cultural chauvinists, such as my first hairdresser here, who claim that they never sully their eyeballs with American films. It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France
For she would always move away, as long as there was a despicable husband that yelled and disturbed the neighbors, and broke objects in a constant state of insobriety.
You will only injure yourself if take notice of despicable enemies.
From beginning to end his conduct had been despicable and wicked.
Jonas has no interest in assigning blame or even judging his father, despicable as the man was, a paranoid brute whom Jonas and his mother hoped to escape in the way you'd want to escape a bad storm. Dinaw Mengestu's 'How to Read the Air,' reviewed by Ron Charles
That despicable cabal of neo-fascists, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has shown its usual disdain for the public interest over the last two months.

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