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Definition of despicable : Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

Synonyms:

pitiable, paltry, disgusting, ugly, horrifying, pathetic, worthless, poor, nauseous, piteous, base, detestable, slimed, odious, infamous, good, abominable, woful, slimy, abject, evil, nauseating, foul, nefarious, deplorable, unworthy, execrable, suffering, obnoxious, despisable, moving, abhorrent, wicked, noisome, queasy, lousy, misfortunate, woeful, surly, nasty, repugnant, atrocious, frightful, filthy, sickening, miserable, rotten, undeserving, touching, lamentable, mournful, antipathetic, ignoble, horrible, wretched, shabby, sorrowful, pitiful, hapless

mean, reprehensible, contemptible, vile, repellent, low, loathsome, revolting, offensive, repulsive

Usage examples:

• It is altogether despicable, and it is dangerous besides. - "Recollections of a Varied Life", George Cary Eggleston.
• Do you think we are as despicable as all that? - "Prudence of the Parsonage", Ethel Hueston.
• Here one grows so small, so despicable, but in Africa everything is built to a nobler standard. - "Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor", William Somerset Maugham.