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Answer for the clue "A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible ", 4 letters:
puke

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1737, "a medicine which excites vomiting;" 1966 as "material thrown up in vomiting," from puke (v.). U.S. colloquial meaning "native of Missouri" (1835) might be a different word, of unknown origin.\n\nIt is well known, that the inhabitants of the several ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB make ▪ The stuff was either rubbish, or twee, or so boring it made you want to puke . ▪ It makes you want to puke . ▪ It makes me want to puke , except I did enough of that last Saturday night! want ▪ The stuff was ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puke \Puke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puking .] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. --Shak.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter , dirty dog , rat , skunk , stinker ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pukë is a town and municipality in northern Albania . It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Gjegjan , Pukë, Qelëz , Qerret and Rrapë , that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the ...

Usage examples of puke.

Puke Te Kauere are backed by heavy forest, the immense kahikatea trees.

I have discussed in another chapter, the one thing I absolutely will not tolerate in my car is puking, regardless of whether or not the puker is a very close friend of the S.

Kirstie seemed finished puking, but experience taught a mom not to count on lucking into a solitary spew.

By five the next morning Bill Watson, assigned to narcotics for six whole days, was lying in the back yard puking happily, too wired to know he was drunk.

Decimus Junius Silanus, whom she had to admit Cato had summed up neatly as a puking ninny.

After which she had to deal with another of the men in her life: her husband, Decimus Junius Silanus, whom she had to admit Cato had summed up neatly as a puking ninny.

Meanwhile, the vomiter showed no signs of letting up, carrying onward, puking a forth, and then a fifth and sixth time.

Torn between satyriasis and sickness, between passion and puking, his nervous system would eventually revolt.

First he had thought he was going to puke, then he thought he might die, then he had found himself inside one of those kaleidoscopes, then they spent forever squatting on the bed and staring at each other to the tune of some kind of sci-fi flic music, during all of which the treacherous schlong which had gotten him into this mess in the first place remained limp as the proverbial wet noodle.

Dog-shit offshore rig puking your guts out over the side after eating a big sweet ham that the cooking steward had been screwing all month.

Red squill is a well used rat poison by folks with kids and pets to worry about because it only makes a kid, a cat, or a dog puke like hell.

Gary gives you any shit, ask him how long it took to clean the barf off the Octopus after letting a townie ride when his face was puke green.

I metamorphosized her from a Dead on Arrival overdose to a puking hysterical underdose, TURFED to Jeff Cohen.

He watched the occasional truck driver walking back out of the restaurant building, cradling a thermos of coffee or some carryout gut bomb from the choke and puke inside.

But the fucking stuff smells like vinegar and tastes like cat puke and the onliest one really liked it was Simon, so I never lifted any more of it.