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Adjective
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His poor display of unsportsmanlike conduct was reprehensible.—
Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
7 Apr. 2026 -
Prisons are filled with the faithful and the daily news reports are overflowing with reprehensible, criminal, degenerate theists.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The joke implies that Timur, stripped of all the trappings of power and authority, is essentially worthless.—
Perin Gürel,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
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If Zaslav couldn’t get the stock price higher than $10 within five years, his options would ultimately be worthless.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In postseason play in all sports, millions are watching who have not watched all year and this is the unworthy picture of UConn women’s basketball and its coach they were given.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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The use of childish internet and video-game memes to describe violence is coarse and unworthy of the men and women who go in harm’s way.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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By the way, the search for waste, fraud and abuse — call it WFA — has a long and discreditable history.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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Any review of these discreditable events requires recognition of an antidote to this foolishness.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
13 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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Imagine what the outcry would be if Joe Biden had done something so despicable.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Where health insurance is concerned, the result is an escalation of the already despicable situation forced on patients by a lack of public insurance option (owing in no small part to commercial insurance giants themselves).—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Most people in the anglosphere don’t follow this region, and those who do get their opinions from a small number of people with a contemptible worldview.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Apr. 2026
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For a man whose alleged bone spurs kept him out of the Vietnam draft to muse about receiving an award reserved for the bravest of the brave of the American armed forces is contemptible.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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These two beacons of truth and connoisseurs of mess have been bonded for over a decade, sharing the traumas of a crappy Boston dorm room and a pitiful Brooklyn dating scene.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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Most of the time, experts say, vaguebooking boils down to a pitiful plea for attention on the part of the poster.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Yet, while Munro’s denial was a horrible violence, Fremlin’s deplorable acts were the original brutality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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Black Chicagoans were relegated to deplorable housing like one room kitchenettes.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Illaudable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illaudable. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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