despicable
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“Who are you to call me unworthy or despicable when you don’t even know me!!” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026
The Minions, we learn in their latest adventure, were originally a seafaring folk who traveled the oceans in rowboats looking for the most evil and despicable master they could possibly find.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
In a statement on Thursday, the governor of the Bandiagara region "condemned these despicable and inhumane acts in the strongest possible terms".
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
The chimp war study went viral for a variety of reasons, not least of them the lurid spectacle of a species other than our own committing despicable acts.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
The whole rotten lot of them is despicable.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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Bush's Address on 9/11
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