emphasis If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil. The Minister said the bombing was a despicable crime. extremely bad, immoral, or cruel (despicabilis, from despicari )
worthy only of being despised and rejected; "a contemptible lack of courage"; "A little, wretched, despicable creature, a worm, a mere nothing that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth"- Jonathan Edwards