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What is the adjective for despising?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs despise and despect which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

despicable
despiseworthy
  1. (rare) Worthy of being despised; despicable.
despisable
  1. Despicable; contemptible.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They have a great fishing trade here, as well for supply of the country as for merchandise, and the towns are not despisable.”
      “Anything but resentment there would have been unnatural, not to say inhuman and despisable, in a daughter.”
      “As if the human mystery can be bifurcated and compartmentalized into portions lovable and despisable.”
despised
despising
despected
  1. simple past tense and past participle of despect.
despecting
  1. present participle of despect.
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