Meaning of despisable | Babel Free

Definitions

Worthy to be despised.

archaic

Examples

“c. 1530, uncredited translator, The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, Dialogue 110, And forasmoche as we be so Noble of owr natyf kynde / let vs pursewe such beastis as be vyle & despisable.”

“the Jewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world”

“[…] Meekness, Condescension, Forbearance, are so far from being despisable Qualities in our Sex, that they are the Glory of it.”

“1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 297, “but now he is nothing more than despisable, or what’s the same thing, a pedlar without house, pack, or money.””

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