despicable

Example Sentences

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The families called for "those past and present who have presided over this despicable incompetence" to be held to account and stripped of their pensions accrued during their time at the hospital.

From BBC

“The Department of Justice has launched a full investigation into the despicable incident that took place earlier today at a church in Minnesota.”

From Salon

Leave me in the care of that dodgy, despicable landlady?

From Literature

She called the decision to exclude her a "blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship" and the attempt to link her with the Bondi attack "despicable".

From BBC

It was a "despicable attempt to associate me with the Bondi massacre", she said in a statement.

From Barron's