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DESPICABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does despicably mean?
• DESPICABLY (adverb)
The adverb DESPICABLY has 1 sense:
1. in a despicable manner
Familiarity information: DESPICABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a despicable manner
Context example:
he acted despicably
Pertainym:
despicable (morally reprehensible)
Context examples
How despicably I have acted! she cried; I, who have prided myself on my discernment!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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