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Despisable in sentence

11 examples of Despisable in a sentence

"And then you will be despisable," said the housekeeper bitterly.
"A peddler without goods and without money is sure to be despisable."
Harvey will be nothing but an utterly despisable, poverty-stricken wretch.
But Harvey is little better now than a beggar; and a beggar, Miss Jeanette, is the most awfully despisable of all earthly creatures."
"But now he is nothing more than despisable, or, what's the same thing, a peddler without house, pack, or money.
"And care thrown away I may well call it; for Harvey is quite too despisable to be any sort of compensation at present."
But some day he may know what it is to want a careful woman in his house, though now I am sure he is too despisable himself to have a house."
At the most, they could only have killed him, and now a body may say that they have slain both soul and body; or, what's the same thing, they have made him a despisable vagabond.
"I'm sure," said Katy, with a stiff erectness that drew Lawton back in his saddle, "no man shall ever dare to lay hands on bed of mine; it's undecent and despisable conduct."
"Yes, Ondree; when he was hanged, acrost the Tappan, the old gentleman was near hand to going crazy about it, and didn't sleep for night nor day, till Harvey got back; and then his money was mostly golden guineas; but the Skinners took it all, and now he is a beggar, or, what's the same thing, despisable for poverty and want."
The last time I was there, that yellow, sharp-nosed housekeeper of your mother's took me into the pantry, and said that the colonel was no despisable match, as she called it, and how the sale of his plantation in Georgia had brought him - oh, Lord!