(a.) Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Example Sentences:
(1) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(2) Boris Johnson , the London mayor, said: "I cannot think of anything more despicable than the police attempting to smear Stephen Lawrence's family.
(3) Tories and their rich media friends peddle this despicable idea so that we can be gradually brought to think that taxation should not be used to pay for everyone’s health.
(4) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
(5) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
(6) Despicable remarks which deserve to be condemned,” Turnbull said.
(7) He said: "Make no mistake, we will continue to confront Isil wherever it tried to spread its despicable hatred.
(8) At least two characters – a Minion from Despicable Me and one of the Elmos – said they had purchased their costumes, made in Peru, for about $300.
(9) For iPad , Candy Crush Saga led YouTube, Skype, Temple Run 2, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, eBay for iPad, Despicable Me: Minion Rush, 4 Pics 1 Word and Calculator for iPad Free.
(10) Some of the strongest criticism came from Travis Tygaart, the head of Usada, who called the cyber attacks “cowardly and despicable” and reiterated that the athletes named had done nothing wrong.
(11) I can’t help wondering whether there’s another agenda going on, and that they’re trying to limit the level of potential claims for compensation from victims of both Savile and Hall ... “People in the BBC at the time knew he was despicable, and they could have done something to stop him.
(12) Attacking religious sentiments to promote an agenda as tragedy strikes is despicable.” Carly Fiorina (Republican) NRA rating: A (qualified) in 2010 “As the tragedy in San Bernardino unfolds, predictably, without knowing any of the facts of what has happened there or why, President Obama and Hillary Clinton immediately came out and made a political statement for gun control,” Fiorina said when asked about second amendment rights on Wednesday, according to ABC .
(13) You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Sean Spicer apologizes for 'even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons' gaffe Read more Spicer’s assertion during the Jewish holiday of Passover provoked instant outrage on social media and from some Holocaust memorial groups, who accused him of minimising Hitler’s crimes.
(14) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(15) India's national security adviser called the treatment of Khobragade on Tuesday "despicable and barbaric".
(16) A Labour MP has hit out at the News of the World for being involved in a "despicable and evil act" and called on the prime minister to act over the hacking of the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler following her disappearance in March 2002.
(17) The US ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones called the news "heartbreaking", and on her Twitter account denounced "a cowardly, despicable, shameful act against a courageous woman and true Libyan patriot".
(18) This plays well with the Tory party, though to judge from the leaked remarks of a member of the party's anti-European right like Patrick Mercer – who is reported to regard Mr Cameron as "a most despicable creature without any real redeeming features" – the prime minister is simply feeding a dog which will always bite him.
(19) In an interview after appearing before the Leveson inquiry, the singer Charlotte Church described the way women were portrayed in the UK media as despicable.
(20) One PTI voter, called Ashar, who ventured to a polling station at a school in the Defence neighbourhood which was the scene of protests last week, described the killing of Zahra Shahid as "despicable".
Disgraceful
Definition:
(a.) Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The speech also made a reference to the disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, with Ashdown telling delegates that when he first stood for parliament in Yeovil in the 1970s, the Liberal leader at the time, Jeremy Thorpe, was facing trial at the Old Bailey.
(2) As the Labour leadership accused the coalition of launching a smear campaign over the party's links with the disgraced chairman, a transcript of an interview with Balls in 2010 showed that he highlighted his role in helped to create Britain's "first ever 'super-mutual'".
(3) Miliband – sounding more animated than normal – hit back at the prime minister, saying: "What an absolute disgrace to describe talking about cancer patients in this country as a smokescreen."
(4) Silfen told Haaretz: “I missed a critical committee session that I needed to attend and was sent home in disgrace because the length of my dress didn’t suit them.
(5) 'Have a thick skin' – sex discrimination commissioner's advice to her successor Read more Labor said it was “a disgrace for women everywhere” that the government was delaying appointing a replacement for Elizabeth Broderick, the long-serving commissioner whose term expired four months ago.
(6) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(7) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(8) Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a colleague in a Commons bar in 2012, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
(9) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
(10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
(11) The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai was spared execution at a hearing last week, with a court in Hefei instead handing her the suspended penalty .
(12) After this disgraceful farce of wrongful blame (the spokespeople for the police and the NHS happy to tolerate, if not encourage, the misleading targeting of the social workers), the right questions are still being ignored.
(13) In the Commons, John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, covering Heathrow, was suspended for five days by the deputy speaker after he picked up the mace and shouted: "It is a disgrace."
(14) The extent and depth of political bias in the BBC is a matter of opinion, but this is a disgrace by any standard, however low.
(15) The bill was assisted along its way by the fact that one of its most prominent opponents was disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien .
(16) Analysts say Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, is waiting to see how the Trump administration shapes up and who replaces South Korea’s disgraced president, Park Geun-hye.
(17) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
(18) The senior Tory has acknowledged he became heated after he was seen shouting "you're a disgrace" at Tories and Liberal Democrats who failed to vote with the government.
(19) Speaking from her home in New Jersey, she said: "Any letting out of Megrahi would be a disgrace.
(20) Blood laced with disgrace flows from my hands, feet and side.