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Adjective
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Charlie Kirk's murder is sick and reprehensible, and our thoughts are with his family, children, and loved ones.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025 -
Political violence in all forms is unacceptable and reprehensible.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The energy department said wind and solar capacity is 'worthless' without sunlight or wind.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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Overnight, many of those owners saw their wealth erased — their principal assets rendered worthless.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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The brain is surrounded by a layer of tightly joined cells, called the blood-brain barrier, that acts as a bouncer turning away any substances deemed unworthy of accessing our most precious resource.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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By the way, the search for waste, fraud and abuse — call it WFA — has a long and discreditable history.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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Any review of these discreditable events requires recognition of an antidote to this foolishness.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
13 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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Time and again, history’s advance has been imagined to depend on silencing or destroying a single figure – the rival who becomes the ultimate, despicable foe.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
12 Sep. 2025
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Foster, who was so good as Henry Haft in another brutal boxing story The Survivor, here is on the other side playing a despicable man who fortunately now in real life is in prison.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The death of Pope Francis, sadly, has not escaped the attention of these truly contemptible criminals.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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At the time, some of LeBron’s critics saw this as contemptible.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The pitiful screaming of surviving family members can be heard.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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As del Toro sees it, Frankenstein’s pitiful creation has been cursed with life, cannot be killed (even bullets don’t stop him) and must face the same existential crisis that confronts us all.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The charges come after officials described deplorable living conditions in the home, news outlets reported.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the onset of the rainy season has exacerbated already deplorable conditions, transforming dust into thick sludge, flooding fragile shelters, and bringing swarms of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Illaudable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illaudable. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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