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Definition of Despicableness
1. Noun. Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.
Generic synonyms: Unworthiness
Derivative terms: Base, Base, Contemptible, Despicable, Despicable, Sordid, Sordid, Sordid
Definition of Despicableness
1. n. The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
Definition of Despicableness
1. Noun. The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despicableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despicableness
Literary usage of Despicableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anti-foreign Riots in China in 1891: With an Appendix by North China Herald (1892)
"Is the detestation of the missionary to be ascribed to the despicableness of the
missionary himself, the worthlessness of his teachings and the vileness of ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"The distinction comes in the revivals upon which we act in judgment, when the
despicableness of the self-complacency brings a balance of pain to a man who ..."
3. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"Fer-anp'to-ri-neaa Positiveness; dogmatism, s. Mer'ri-nesa Mirth; merry disposition,
s- Sor'ri-nett Meanness ; despicableness, a. ..."
4. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"He had no eye, like Dante's, for the vileness, the cruelty, the utter despicableness
to which ..."
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