execrable

Example Sentences

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I almost feel bad for him trying so pathetically to defend such an execrable entity like the Iranian regime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The video clip of team highlights over the decades, scored by the execrable Train song “Calling All Angels,” was longer than ever, and more desperate.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

And then not only took the case but issued this execrable ruling.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2022

Her parents are absent or execrable, she has no friends, and every disappointment is “one more nail” in the coffin of Jade’s dreams.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021

And within a week, recalled one of his students, he had filled his office blackboard in LeConte Hall with “a drawing—very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik