(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".
Scurrilous
Definition:
(a.) Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
(1) They are not about press illegality but something mysteriously called "misdemeanour" – that is scurrility, intrusion and unfairness.
(2) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.
(3) With its combination of scurrilous details (“flask” sized penises and a key witness called Bubba the Love Sponge) and big picture analysis (“this is the biggest First Amendment case in the internet age”), Hogan v Gawker is a classic Denton story.
(4) Jailed in 1971 for his part in producing the scurrilous magazine Oz, he runs the Forest of Dennis, more than 600,000 new trees covering 500 hectares, through a charitable trust.
(5) The flurry of scandal over Oxford University Press stopping its children’s writers from referring to pigs or pork for fear of risking Middle East sales – or the Harper Collins atlases for export that mysteriously omit Israel for the same reason – show how easily freedom slips away unless scurrilous outriders like Charlie Hebdo can keep mocking church and mosque.
(6) Also moving last week: • Switzerland, 26 April: Sion president Christian Constantin says reports that he could sack his fifth coach of the season are scurrilous: "Gattuso is going nowhere, he calls the shots – nothing will be done here without his say so."
(7) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(8) Others on the train begin spreading scurrilous rumours that I am travelling in first class, forcing me later to produce my train tickets.
(9) The union vowed to ramp up industrial action, including strikes in the autumn over a range of grievances spanning pay, pensions and workload after passing a motion denouncing "scurrilous attacks, abuse, intimidation and lies" and accusing the government of a "vicious assault" on the profession.
(10) Rather, it will protect members of the public from the more scurrilous abuses, which in my case resulted in the printing of lies and unfounded allegations.
(11) Through the listserv, conference calls were quickly organized among top scientists across the country to discuss how to respond to the news that what was seen as a scurrilous and misleading film was to be given a high-profile airing.
(12) I am not a member or even supporter of the Labour party but your scurrilous coverage has convinced me that your paper no longer lives up to the label.
(13) The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke , said: "As the law stands, individuals can be the subject of scurrilous rumour and allegation on the web with little meaningful remedy against the person responsible.
(14) "We are instructed to record our clients' complete rejection of the scurrilous allegations made by the applicants in their papers.
(15) What about Damian McBride, Brown's shamed spin doctor, sacked for sending an email suggesting planting scurrilous and untrue rumours about members of the opposition?
(16) McBride was forced to resign as Brown's head of strategy in 2009 after he sent Draper emails containing scurrilous gossip and lies about Conservative MPs as planning for Red Rag took shape.
(17) Whether such scurrilous operations will surface in 2012 might depend on how close the polls are and at present they are tight.
(18) Liddle provokes to the brink of apoplexy, but he rarely conceals his views in insidious campaigns of rumour and scurrility.
(19) 6.36pm BST 77 min : De Sciglio booked for a scurrilous strategic foul aimed at aborting another Uruguay attack.
(20) These days it would be stretching it to suggest that Eastwood's range is quite that broad, his face seemingly fixed in a beatific beam, the sort of blissful countenance that once had him pegged in a scurrilous - and erroneous - piece of showbiz gossip as Stan Laurel's love child.