Of actions, conduct, character, etc.: Despicable on moral grounds; deserving to be regarded with abhorrence or disgust; characterized by baseness or…

= villain, adj., villainous, adj. Of actions, speech, etc.

Marked by baseness or depravity; partaking of the nature of villainy.

Morally low; despicable, ignoble; reprehensibly cowardly, craven; selfish, mean. Of an action, habit, thought, etc.

= vile, adj., in various senses. Of actions, things, etc.

Vile, mean, base, ignoble.

transferred and figurative. Of persons, qualities, conditions, etc.: Abject, base, low, mean, sordid.

Dishonouring, low, mean. Const. to. Obsolete.