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Definition of execrable in English: execrableadjective ˈɛksɪkrəb(ə)lˈɛksəkrəb(ə)l Extremely bad or unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - A gloriously sweet and rich melange of fruit and chocolate, this would have made me come back even if the rest had been absolutely execrable.
- This is a good thing, obviously, but it is hard to defend the capriciousness of the process in the hands of the execrable Senator.
- Yet to borrow their reasoning and make an equivalent suggestion that Liverpool's fans in turn had some role in their own catastrophe, somehow makes a person execrable and lynchworthy.
- It's a pity then that he or she had chosen to leave copies of a zine lying around which in one they had written some truly execrable poetry.
- For some time now, I've been concerned with the execrable quality of political discourse in this country.
- The other day I wrote to the diary drawing ethics, journalism, perks and the execrable two men together with a quick mention of One Nation.
- They often misunderstand their market and occasionally reject good or even great works but literary agents and editors do prevent a vast quantity of execrable writing from being published.
- Finally, what kind of science is being practised that produces such execrable unnatural phenomena as the ‘terminator gene’?
- Subramanyan's composition reminds us that the human species is the only one that commits execrable crimes against its own, in the name of causes and ideals.
- He was also a mountaineer, though not a great one; a non-fiction writer, though not of the first rank; and an execrable poet and failed novelist.
- And the execrable theme-song has been revamped from its elevator-metal original version to a new Love Boat stylee quasi-orchestral rendition.
- I think the solution is to do what we did with that movie when its execrable sequels were released - forget that they were ever made and pretend that it had remained a stand alone movie all along.
- If he indeed were guilty of such an execrable transgression, this newspaper would be among the first to condemn, and not defend, him and his broadcaster.
- Depending on your predilection, you can say that's a good thing or bad thing, but, for the likes of me, the modern world is often execrable.
- Needless to say, one critic called the show ‘the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television.’
- We determined over time that the brilliant had been selected for our flight school based on their superior skills, while the execrable had been selected based on their superior connections.
- He notes that the popularity rating of the execrable Chancellor hovers at about 23 percent.
- Part of the problem was the set design - like those execrable movies, they seemed to think that Funky Urban Futurism can be established by an excess of neon.
- The vast majority of music is execrable in quality.
- This week alone I've come across four sensationally good bottles which show up the execrable wines for what they are.
Synonyms appalling, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, very bad, lamentable disgusting, deplorable, disgraceful, reprehensible, shameful, abominable, abhorrent, loathsome, odious, heinous, hateful, detestable, despicable, foul, vile, scandalous, contemptible, repugnant, repellent, revolting, unspeakable, wretched informal abysmal, diabolical, shocking, rotten, woeful, lousy, dire, the pits, God-awful, tenth-rate British informal chronic, pants, a load of pants vulgar slang crap, shit rare egregious
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'expressing or involving a curse'): via Old French from Latin execrabilis, from exsecrari 'to curse' (see execrate). Definition of execrable in US English: execrableadjectiveˈɛksəkrəb(ə)lˈeksəkrəb(ə)l Extremely bad or unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - I think the solution is to do what we did with that movie when its execrable sequels were released - forget that they were ever made and pretend that it had remained a stand alone movie all along.
- He notes that the popularity rating of the execrable Chancellor hovers at about 23 percent.
- If he indeed were guilty of such an execrable transgression, this newspaper would be among the first to condemn, and not defend, him and his broadcaster.
- They often misunderstand their market and occasionally reject good or even great works but literary agents and editors do prevent a vast quantity of execrable writing from being published.
- For some time now, I've been concerned with the execrable quality of political discourse in this country.
- Yet to borrow their reasoning and make an equivalent suggestion that Liverpool's fans in turn had some role in their own catastrophe, somehow makes a person execrable and lynchworthy.
- This is a good thing, obviously, but it is hard to defend the capriciousness of the process in the hands of the execrable Senator.
- And the execrable theme-song has been revamped from its elevator-metal original version to a new Love Boat stylee quasi-orchestral rendition.
- The other day I wrote to the diary drawing ethics, journalism, perks and the execrable two men together with a quick mention of One Nation.
- The vast majority of music is execrable in quality.
- Depending on your predilection, you can say that's a good thing or bad thing, but, for the likes of me, the modern world is often execrable.
- It's a pity then that he or she had chosen to leave copies of a zine lying around which in one they had written some truly execrable poetry.
- Part of the problem was the set design - like those execrable movies, they seemed to think that Funky Urban Futurism can be established by an excess of neon.
- This week alone I've come across four sensationally good bottles which show up the execrable wines for what they are.
- Needless to say, one critic called the show ‘the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television.’
- A gloriously sweet and rich melange of fruit and chocolate, this would have made me come back even if the rest had been absolutely execrable.
- We determined over time that the brilliant had been selected for our flight school based on their superior skills, while the execrable had been selected based on their superior connections.
- Finally, what kind of science is being practised that produces such execrable unnatural phenomena as the ‘terminator gene’?
- He was also a mountaineer, though not a great one; a non-fiction writer, though not of the first rank; and an execrable poet and failed novelist.
- Subramanyan's composition reminds us that the human species is the only one that commits execrable crimes against its own, in the name of causes and ideals.
Synonyms appalling, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, very bad, lamentable
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘expressing or involving a curse’): via Old French from Latin execrabilis, from exsecrari ‘to curse’ (see execrate). |