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Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke.

Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

Despicable; contemptible. [R.]

Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. A foolish figure he must make. Prior.

A despicable fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

Despicable. [Obs.]

A despicable person. "Boy! false hound!" Shak.

Deserving ignominy; despicable. One single, obscure, ignominious projector. Swift.

Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable. The Roman legions and great Cæsar found Our fathers no mean foes. J. Philips.

A despicable person; a wretch. [Obs.] Shak.

Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.