Vocabulary
Despicable
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
deserving hatred and contempt.
Urdu meaning
قابل حقارت، مایوسی،ناامیدی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- However, some of the most damaging and enduring consequences stem from prolonged undernutrition and starvation, through a despicable policy of food blockade, which is akin to genocide.
- The most despicable form of gender violence is seen when a woman dares to love and, in doing so, violates family pride.
- That such a calculus is inhuman, despicable and worthy of condemnation is passionately proclaimed when the protagonists and their actions are somewhere far away.
- This is doubly despicable to jeopardise those with no say in the matter while making sure that they themselves not only remain safe and unaccountable but also gain from the fallout.
- Unless we agree that cleaning toilets is honourable and it is the breach of contracts, social or divine, that is despicable, limbo will only end in hell.
Synonyms
contemptible, loathsome, hateful, detestable, reprehensible, abhorrent, abominable
Antonyms
admirable, noble
Curator example
“a despicable crime”
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