Definitions for despicable

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despicable des·pi·ca·ble

Spelling: [des-pi-kuh-buh l, dih-spik- Despicable is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 825 anagrams from letters in despicable (abcdeeilps).

Definitions for despicable

adjective

1. deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible:

Origin of despicable

1545-55; Late Latin dēspicābilis, equivalent to Latin dēspic(ārī) to despise or dēspic(ere) to look down (dē- de- + -spic- look, combining form of specere) + -ābilis

Examples for despicable

She had just done a thing that was mean, or at least she had done a thing from a mean, a despicable motive.

And even today there are despicable instances of hate crimes versus Jews in our country.

I w-wouldn't have believed that anyone would be so despicable!

The despicable methods he was adopting troubled him not in the least.

But side by side with these despicable men what heroism we saw!

But Hathaway, thanks to all of us despicable people, does need to care about being liked.

But despicable as his conduct had been, he underwent no hasty condemnation.

And demonizing the women leveling these charges is despicable.

But most of all blame China and the despicable hunger of its status-conscious middle class for baubles of worked ivory.

Mr. Abe was not amused and on his Facebook page he called these taunts “the most despicable act.”