despicable

despicable
adj
1. contemptible, worthy of scorn, worthy of disdain, reptilian, stinking, Inf. lousy, scurvy; abhorrent, abominable, execrable, loathsome, hateful, odious, detestable, heinous; evil, ugly.
2. ignominious, sordid, vile, Inf. scummy, ignoble, beneath contempt, base, base-spirited, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, villainous, wretched, sorry, Archaic. caitiff; paltry, low, abject, cheap, shabby, groveling, servile, beggarly, worthless, nameless, Inf. no-account; disgusting, rank, distasteful, disreputable, shameful, disgraceful, unadmirable.

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