DESPICABLE, adjective [Low Latin To look down, to despise; to look.] That may be or deserves to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; applicable equally to persons and things; as a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.