How to Use despicable in a Sentence

despicable

adjective

• She is a despicable traitor.
• Per the saga, this is when things went awry and a despicable spy saw the message.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Their despicable comments just make my blood boil with anger.
  — CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• To have even one of those games ruined by these senseless acts is despicable.
  — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 1 Sep. 2023
• And now, a woman has lost her life because of this despicable act.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 12 May 2026
• And now, a woman has lost her life because of this despicable act.
  — Calvin Milliner, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2024
• The actor plays despicable almost too well, with greasy smiles and quick wit and anger.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
• New rulers rise up — some wise, some foolish, a few truly despicable.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• This whole thing is despicable.
  — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
• This cowardly and despicable act of hate has no room in our lives or business.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2022
• And all of our city leaders must speak up to condemn this despicable attack.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• There are dirty plays in hockey, and there are the plays beyond that that are just downright despicable.
  — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026
• Wolfe was despicable – a very, very bad man and human being, plain and simple.
  — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2017
• The whole world has heard of the despicable events that took place in the UK in recent weeks.
  — Nadia Patel, Seventeen, 15 June 2017
• As Bertram, Gabriel Brown played well the spoiled and despicable cad.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2025
• 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
• This kind of violence in a place of worship is despicable.
  — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
• These despicable tactics need to end.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
• Ellen has been promised to a despicable family.
  — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Kamilla could sit around and cry about the despicable things happening in her home country.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2025
• That’s a high pressure tactic used by the despicable or, at best, the desperate.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
• In the most despicable clips, Agartha and Vril have become stand-ins for bigotry.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Imagine what the outcry would be if Joe Biden had done something so despicable.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
• Plus, Palmer is a horrible person — in this case, the victim is much more despicable than the thieves.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• This is York making a totally clean break from the despicable couple.
  — Lauryn Overhultz , Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026
• This is not the first time Bill Clinton has used race to despicable ends during an election cycle.
  — Susana Morris, Cosmopolitan, 8 Apr. 2016