It might first make you think, "Oh Rick, you loveably despicable hunk of right wing chutzpah, you.
Eating at McDonald 'sin a foreign country does not make you a despicable traveler.
But by the end of the second hour, we were back to characters not behaving like themselves (Ivy was never a sad sack), ridiculous fantasy musical numbers (Derek's drunken revelry of Would I Lie to You), and characters so despicable you couldn't even love to hate them (Jeremy Jordan's songwriter Jimmy).
One of the prosecutors, Victoria Peters, an assistant United States attorney, asked the jury: "What would you have your government do — tell Mr. Headley, 'I'm sorry, you're a despicable person and we're not interested in what you have to say to us'?
When you think of Despicable Me, there's a good chance you think of the Minions, the annoying dungaree-wearing sentient Kinder Eggs that more or less solely exist as a baldly transparent merchandising opportunity for the bigwigs at Illumination Entertainment.
"You're despicable, you sneaky little . . .
"Good evening and welcome, you bunch of despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats," Fey said, smiling, as the show began.
As you say, the "despicable politics" of the Bush team strategists "reflects badly on the president's character".
If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
"Good evening and welcome you bunch of despicable, spoilt, minimally-talented brats," quipped Fey, in a nod to the leaked emails about Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie.
