Definition of execrable
1 : deserving to be execrated : detestable execrable crimes
2 : very bad : wretched execrable hotel food
execrableness
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Examples of execrable in a Sentence
Living conditions in the slums were execrable.
her execrable singing finally brought a complaint from the neighbors
Recent Examples of execrable from the Web
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In the soft pink dusk, as a perfect full moon rose out of the mountains, even the execrable post war concrete buildings below that so despoil the landscape here and throughout this ravishing island somehow managed to fade before nature’s majesty.
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Since the Dark Knight trilogy ended, DC has made some of the world's most atrocious superhero movies in history, culminating in the execrable Batman v. Superman.
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Given the success of Van Wilder, no one at the company was opposed to licensing the brand, but the first projects Laikin brought in were execrable.
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Thankfully, the House's Black Caucus raised hell and walked out in protest after the Monuments Men seceded from the 21st Century by passing this execrable legislation.
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Given the success of Van Wilder, no one at the company was opposed to licensing the brand, but the first projects Laikin brought in were execrable.
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Given the success of Van Wilder, no one at the company was opposed to licensing the brand, but the first projects Laikin brought in were execrable.
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From America’s perspective, New Start is an execrable deal, a...
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Remember when Uber was in trouble because a top executive said execrable things about targeting journalists?
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Did You Know?
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).
First Known Use of execrable
14th century
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