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execrably, adv.|ˈɛksɪkrəblɪ| [f. execrable + -ly2.] In an execrable manner. †a. So as to deserve execration (obs.). b. Accursedly, abominably, detestably, atrociously.
1633Prynne Histrio-Mastix i. vi. ii. 154 These Playes themselves must certainely be execrably odious to all good Christians. 1671Milton Samson 1362 What act more execrably unclean? 1693Dryden Persius i. 14 'Tis Fustian all; 'tis execrably bad. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse i. iii, They [the shoes] pinch me execrably. 1794V. Knox Antipolemus 27 The object of a battle was..sordid lucre, or something still more execrably flagitious. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) ii. xxxvii, Bells execrably rung for some hours every evening. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 6 Pictures, execrably bad in all cases. |