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Leveraging the dead to score propaganda victories or perpetuate conflict is reprehensible.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025 -
Musk delivered an unmistakable, and reprehensible, fascist salute.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This makes any concessions congressional Democrats may be able to obtain from their Republican colleagues worthless.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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These pump-and-dump schemes artificially inflate stock prices, allowing the perpetrators to sell at a high price before the stock inevitably crashes, leaving investors with worthless shares.—
True Tamplin,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But these feelings differ from the systemic barriers and biases that create environments where women—and especially women of color—are made to feel unworthy.—
Shari Dunn,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
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To rename the Gulf of Mexico is so petty — unworthy of our greatness as a nation.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Now, the previous autobiographical snippet, like those of the other three men, may have omitted certain discreditable matters.—
William T. Vollmann,
Harper's Magazine,
16 Oct. 2023
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In an America where the masks of the rich and powerful have long been dropped, Posey pulls off a mysterious emotional striptease, revealing the many layers of Victoria — lazy, childlike, despicable, poignant, inimitable.—
Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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All Americans should be thankful this despicable waste is being identified.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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Despite his more contemptible tendencies of the past decade, Chappelle is a tremendously gifted stand-up at heart, and these sprawling monologues are always exciting.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2025
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Fiona Shaw is so perfectly contemptible throughout those scenes on the sailboat, rendering Angelica so completely self-absorbed and so cruel, that her likely death feels like an immediate relief.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Its pitiful history includes only one application, less than a decade after its formulation, to strike down a delegation in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935).—
Marie Sapirie,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Kubrick’s film is a hell of a black comedy that satirizes the mediocrity of middle-class life: In the director’s world, fathers are pitiful providers, mothers are blandly cheerful (while quietly suffering enormously), and the kids see far more than their parents do.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Eagles, meanwhile, aim to make their city’s police force grease the light poles for a parade because the fanbase is made up of deplorable animals.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2025
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As the Biden administration tried to tailor a peace deal, protests on US campuses and on the streets were paralleled with a deplorable rise in anti-Semitism around the Western world.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Illaudable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illaudable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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