DESPICABLE


Meaning of DESPICABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

crime

Courtney must be stopped from carrying out more despicable crimes .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Abusing a child is a despicable act.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

How could anyone believe such a low, despicable thing of her?

It's despicable to make me admit it.

Police say the man escaped across fields after what they said was a despicable attack.

She is using the most despicable word she can think of.

The first is purely despicable and the second is simply contemptible.

To pretend would be despicable - or would it?

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