execrable
adjective
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He or she who is cursed faces execrable conditions. Keep this in mind to remember that execrable is a descendant of the Latin verb exsecrari, meaning "to put under a curse." Since its earliest uses in English, beginning in the 14th century, execrable has meant "deserving or fit to be execrated," the reference being to things so abominable as to be worthy of formal denouncement (such as "execrable crimes"). But in the 19th century we lightened it up a bit, and our "indescribably bad" sense has since been applied to everything from roads ("execrable London pavement" - Sir Walter Scott) to food ("The coffee in the station house was ... execrable." - Clarence Day) to, inevitably, the weather ("the execrable weather of the past fortnight" - The (London) Evening Standard).
Examples of execrable in a Sentence
John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
The latter was killed so the former could live on, though many fans wonder why the better of the two was cancelled while the execrable Rings Of Power was given yet another season.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
In the earliest days of the Biden administration, Caldwell even went so far as to praise Robert Malley—Biden's execrable choice for special envoy to Iran, and previously the chief American negotiator for former President Barack Obama's 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Yes, the execrable Gaetz has been dumped from contention.
—Jackie Calmes, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Execrable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/execrable. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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