[ adv ] in a despicable manner <adv.all> he acted despicably
Despicably \Des"pi*ca*bly\, adv. In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.
Others were treated despicably.
None of Judge Bork's friends, including us, could believe that this dishonest, despicably anti-intellectual campaign could succeed against the nation's outstanding jurist.
A magistrate today said white riot police had acted despicably and unlawfully in an attack on mixed-race demonstrators, but he acquitted their two commanding officers of assault charges.