Martin Scorsese

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

American Director

Eric Bischoff

You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you're not. And if you're not, you're a heel: you're despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.

American Businessman

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

American Author

Frank McCourt

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Irish Author

Ryan Zinke

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to anyone who serves honourably. I think it's despicable that a president would put veterans on his website and list them on an enemies list.

American Politician

Judith Martin

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Tom Ellis

There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.

Welsh Actor

William Hazlitt

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

English Critic

Len Wein

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

American Cartoonist

Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

French Philosopher

Despicable invokes strong disapproval and often refers to actions that are morally wrong.

Negative Emotion

Use 'despicable' when feeling a powerful sense of hate or disgust, not just mild dislike.

Strength of Dislike

'Despicable' is intensified when paired with words like 'utterly' or 'truly' to express extreme contempt.

Intensifying Collocations

 five feet long with a t-handle at one end and a hook at the other and they literally would hook the body under the jaw and pierce the skin and then they would literally just pull the body right up out of that shaft and though their ghoulish practice was illegal and unethical they're despicable deeds help

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 asking for help. They were shot at, their malocas, their longhouses, were burned. Some of them were massacred. Using automatic weapons to slaughter uncontacted peoples is the single most despicable and disgusting human rights abuse