How to Use despicable in a Sentence

despicable

adjective

• She is a despicable traitor.
• The whole world has heard of the despicable events that took place in the UK in recent weeks.
  — Nadia Patel, Seventeen, 15 June 2017
• Per the saga, this is when things went awry and a despicable spy saw the message.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• The events are despicable and have no place in our country.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 26 Oct. 2018
• How despicable is Trump, trying to throw the press in jail.
  — The Hive, 17 May 2017
• It’s hard to choose the most despicable aspect of Madoff’s crimes.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 19 May 2017
• One of the most despicable tricks of the patriarchy is to peddle the myth that men can’t do more around the house because they weren’t raised doing so.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• But some movie theaters have found the trend despicable.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• This is one of the most despicable things the Trump administration has done to date.
  — Jordyn Taylor, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2017
• To have even one of those games ruined by these senseless acts is despicable.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2023
• This from a man who was found responsible for one of the more despicable acts in our lifetime.
  — Robin Abcarian Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Biden drew a line from the atrocities in the Holocaust to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, and said what has followed that day has been despicable.
  — Tamara Keith, NPR, 7 May 2024
• Cole’s Paw Sidin is wily and despicable, though as cool as his long, blue buttoned jacket.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• Is there anything more despicable than a New York City cop with an Irish surname?
  — Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• That’s a high pressure tactic used by the despicable or, at best, the desperate.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
• That preying on the weakness of others is a despicable act.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2019
• Though his character is despicable, Van Der Beek is proud to be part of a project that has meaning and purpose.
  — Paul Chi, HWD, 18 May 2018
• This cowardly and despicable act of hate has no room in our lives or business.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2022
• Or, to phrase the problem another way, should tech firms allow their services to be used by the despicable?
  — Graham Hillard, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
• Because the only thing more despicable than being young, gifted, and Black in this country is to be proud of those things.
  — Tamerra Griffin, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Guilty Rich: A true-crime series about rich, despicable people who commit crimes and get away with them?
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2017
• The same hallowed grounds where over 1 million people were murdered is still the site of despicable and contemptible crimes.
  — Alan Goch, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Trump’s despicable insult was initially met with a show of defiance and unity, from the top of the NFL on down.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• That's due to ongoing strikes and movements like #MeToo that have shed light on some of its most despicable aspects.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Their despicable comments just make my blood boil with anger.
  — CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Wolfe was despicable – a very, very bad man and human being, plain and simple.
  — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2017
• His gloating just makes his last kill even more despicable.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 July 2019
• The blown postseason leads of Lob City were despicable.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• This is not the first time Bill Clinton has used race to despicable ends during an election cycle.
  — Susana Morris, Cosmopolitan, 8 Apr. 2016
• Biden and the Left’s lust for power and assaults on democracy are despicable and must be defeated at the ballot box.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024