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“deserving to be despised : so worthless or obnoxious as to rouse moral indignation


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:  
despicable: adjective deserving hatred and contempt. (â€"â€" origin C16: from late L. despicabilis, from despicari ‘look down on’.) 


In the debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich called it “despicable” to report that he proposed that his second wife allow him to continue his affair with his now-third! Then he used his two daughters by marriage #1 to defend his behavior to wife #2, and to condone his relationship with wife #3.

The crowd loved his angry retort, and cheered. I thought it was despicable to tell wife #1 in the hospital that he was leaving her and wife #2 over the phone, when she was convalescing, that he wanted an open marriage. I also think! it was despicable for Gingrich to blame John King, the messenger-in-the-media, who could not, as the debate manager, respond to his tirade and engage in an argument with Gingrich.

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