Despicable
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Despicable \Des"pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari
to despise; akin to despicere. See {Despise}.]
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile;
worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a
despicable gift.
Syn: Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry;
sordid; low; base. See {Contemptible}.
[1913 Webster]
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "despicable":
abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base,
beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy,
brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crude, crummy,
debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, detestable, dire, dirty,
disgraceful, disgusting, disreputable, dreadful, egregious,
enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul,
fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grievous, gross, hateful,
heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, infamous,
lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen,
malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal,
miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious,
noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene,
odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable,
pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent,
reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten,
rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy,
scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking,
shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking,
terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unclean,
unmentionable, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst,
worthless, wretched
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