The bottom line is that there is no way that, knowing these facts, anyone can credibly write off these events as another despicable case of anti-Semitism: the same kind of deeply embedded racial hatred that has come down through the ages; the virulence that fueled the Holocaust and the dispatch with which French police rounded up Jews for the Nazis during World War II.
On this view we can more accurately, and less perniciously, understand and describe morally despicable actions, characters, and events using more pedestrian moral concepts such as badness and wrongdoing.
Ms May, who has travelled to Sousse along with foreign office minister Tobias Ellwood for talks with authorities and to pay condolences at the scene of the attack, described Friday's events as a "despicable act of cruelty".
In contrast to the broad concept of evil, the narrow concept of evil picks out only the most morally despicable sorts of actions, characters, events, etc.
On his Facebook page, UC System President Mark Yudof wrote that this most recent event was "a despicable act of racial hatred".
On this version of events, Jordan said it was "despicable" for Jones to have revealed the contents of a private conversation – and as the exchange became more heated, Jones responded by saying "you're a liar".
The individual events include outrageous executive pay, despicable consumer abuse, shocking political influence-peddling, and obscene profit-mongering.
Despicable Me 2 premiered on June 5, 2013 at Event Cinemas in Bondi Junction, New South Wales, Australia.
"What is happening is a savage, despicable act, an inhuman and cruel act," the Saudi prince said of events at Mr. Arafat's compound in the West Bank.
At campaign events, Mr. Gingrich rails against the consultants behind attack ads as "despicable" and, once, as drunks.
