It is nasty, vicious and utterly despicable.

The Doctor had chosen to permanently delete the program; he could not reconcile using this man's knowledge, obtained through utterly despicable means, even for good.

Ruth Brown: "He'd like that, wouldn't he, Amis, if you said he was utterly despicable."

They need to be punished, he says, but for the Defence Secretary to call them "utterly despicable" is over the top.

Cutting off journalist Daniel Pearl's head is utterly despicable, he snarls.

Barbara Bellmon said "that's an utterly despicable thing to say!"

Accusing people of theft, rape, being lice-ridden - it's utterly despicable slander.

Turkey's betrayal of Syria, with which it was best mates just a few months ago, is utterly despicable.

Let me tell you what's utterly despicable, cutting Danny Pearl's head off and showing the video of it.

"We condemn in the very strongest terms the utterly despicable behavior of the Bosnian Serbs," he said.