Example sentences for: despicable

How can you use “despicable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mr. Rangell attributes despicable motives to me, which can be summed up as "opportunism."

  • During the 1990s they made numerous attempts to de-stabilize his regime, finally resorting to attacking the mainstay of the Egyptian economy — tourism  — and several despicable attacks on foreign visitors resulted in over 60 deaths.

  • Didn't we used to deride the Soviet Union for putting those who expressed unpopular (albeit despicable) views in mental institutions?

  • The Los Angeles Times ' Howard Rosenberg deems Seinfeld 's characters predictable and despicable: "Lower their grammar a few notches, and you can see this crowd with Jerry Springer."

  • Though Secretary Albright made no secret of thinking the Taliban "despicable," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, led a delegation to South Asia-including Afghanistan-in April 1998.


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