Word Meanings - DESPISABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Despicable; contemptible.
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- DESPICABLE
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. - CONTEMPTIBLENESS
The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised. - DESPICABLENESS
The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness. - CONTEMPTIBLE
1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.