Sentence examples for despicable at from inspiring English sources

The House and Senate versions differ slightly, but both are brow-furrowing at best and downright despicable at worst, with various degrees of shadiness in between.

Greer Garson doesn't look very girlish (she was 36 and only two years away from "Mrs. Miniver"), but she's enchanting, and Laurence Olivier is absolutely despicable, at first, as Darcy.

Attacks on hospital data and patients were "despicable at the basic level", he said.

Their response to this legislation is puzzling at best, despicable at worst.

There are five things that you could do in the '70s that you could never, ever get away with today because they are so despicable, at least to "p.c". police, they would have you arrested and Child Protective Services would take your children away... probably.

Calling the arts 'culture' does not help to defend it from the despicable cuts at the moment.

KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim began his defense in his sodomy trial on Monday, declaring the charges "a vile and despicable attempt at character assassination".

The former England women's manager Mark Sampson intimidated a female Uefa official by wielding a metal pole above his head in a "despicable" incident at the 2017 European Championship, official disciplinary files have revealed.

At one end was a cult of republican simplicity, so dogmatic that John Quincy Adams's installation of a billiard table in the White House was taken as evidence of his patrician leanings; at the other was a parade of the lowest vices, featuring, according to Charles Dickens, "despicable trickery at elections, under-handed tampering with public officers... shameless truckling to mercenary knaves".

"After the decision was made, and after the despicable scenes at Tripoli airport, was I right to use my energies to minimise further unnecessary suffering for the relatives of Lockerbie victims and to prevent Libyan independence day being made into a celebration of Megrahi's return?

This past weekend I took my kids to see Despicable Me at the Arclight in Sherman Oaks, California.