Adjective : a mean, despicable man. From Dictionary.com.
Her despicableness seems directly proportionate to her desperation. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton: "Women Are Going To Be Heard" In The Remaining Primaries] Reference
If you can't separate a work of art from the despicableness of its creator, you have no business judging a film festival. From Wordnik.com. [Ariel Gonzalez: An Open Letter to Bernard-Henri Levy, on His Defense of Roman Polanski and Pope Benedict XVI] Reference
Not having risen above the level of reptiles and sharks, they showed no awareness of their own despicableness, and thus made no attempt to hide what they were. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
In spite of having been carefully and diligently socialized concerning the despicableness of ordinary citizens (pissants), they had not had a chance yet to behave really cruelly toward them. From Wordnik.com. [What can a young citizen do?] Reference
There's still so many instances of such beauty in the world: state parks, basketball, that girl in the cafeteria who likes you, the Painted Desert, Lucy in her giraffe jammies ... but it only serves to highlight the despicableness of everything else. From Wordnik.com. [incense and peppermints] Reference
From every person as yet unconvinced of the despicableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It] Reference
He had no eye, like Dante's, for the vileness, the cruelty, the utter despicableness to which humanity may be moulded. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference
"Footy" pronounced with a sneering expression of countenance conveys a sense of despicableness, even to those who do not know its exact definition, which may be taken as mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
Brainerd, 'were attended with evangelical humiliation, that is to say, with a deep sense of his own despicableness and odiousness, his ignorance, pride, vileness, and pollution. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents] Reference
Nazareth, his residence at Galilee, the meanness of his family and relations, his poverty, and the despicableness of his followers -- these and the like were stumbling-blocks to many, which all the miracles he wrought could not help them over. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
It's so declasse in comparison to our own bigotry, which is a refined, 'Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatte' form of despicableness. ". From Wordnik.com. [TNR's Marty Peretz Attempts 'Apology' For Column Bashing American Muslims] Reference
'All his religious illuminations, affections, and comforts,' says Jonathan Edwards of David Brainerd, 'were attended with evangelical humiliation, that is to say, with a deep sense of his own despicableness and odiousness, his ignorance, pride, vileness, and pollution. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Rutherford]
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