Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being despicable; vileness; worthlessness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
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- noun The quality of being
despicable ; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
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Examples
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If you can't separate a work of art from the despicableness of its creator, you have no business judging a film festival.
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If you can't separate a work of art from the despicableness of its creator, you have no business judging a film festival.
Ariel Gonzalez: An Open Letter to Bernard-Henri Levy, on His Defense of Roman Polanski and Pope Benedict XVI Ariel Gonzalez 2010
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If you can't separate a work of art from the despicableness of its creator, you have no business judging a film festival.
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Her despicableness seems directly proportionate to her desperation.
Clinton: "Women Are Going To Be Heard" In The Remaining Primaries 2009
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But if all those jurors KNEW the details of his despicableness beforehand, that he had dumped out their water, burned their socks, let the chickens out and a ton of other bad stuff he did, he wouldnt have made it as far as he did.
Joan E. Dowlin: Natalie's Survivor Win Renews My Faith in Human Nature 2009
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995
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His soul goes out most lovingly to them because they have aroused in him all the greatness in his soul, and purified it -- even if only for a time -- of all its dross and despicableness.
The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902
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