despicableness

noun

Definition of despicablenessnext
as in execrableness

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  1. evil
  2. wickedness
  3. immorality
Noun
  • As the film’s wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, Pearce creates a psychologically penetrating portrait of a man who is by turns generous and predatory, inquisitive and closed off, someone who ultimately reveals himself to be capable of true evil.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The show felt joyously anarchic and kind of evil at the same time.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of evil
Noun
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In his book, Maguire explored the origin of the Wicked Witch, and asks how much of her wickedness was imposed upon her by a cruel and deceptive society.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of wickedness
Noun
  • What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of immorality
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