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Webster 1828 Edition
Execrable
EX'ECRABLE
,Adj.
Deserving to be cursed; very hateful; destable; abominable; as an execrable wretch.
Definition 2024
execrable
execrable
See also: exécrable
English
Adjective
execrable (comparative more execrable, superlative most execrable)
- Of the poorest quality.
- Hateful.
- 1779, Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27
- 2001 June 1, Langford, David; Grant, John, Guts: A Comedy of Manners, Wildside Press, ISBN 9781587154485, page 72:
- The arcanely evil words of that despicable, loathsome, suppressed, vile, pululating, odious, nictating, repellent, repugnant, noxious, abhorrent, abominable, tory, execrable, nauseous work, Ye Boke of Guts, moved as if on a conveyor belt before his eyes.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "execrable" is often applied: taste, road, crime, murder, thing.
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Translations
of the poorest quality
hateful