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Definition of Execrable

1. Adjective. Of very poor quality or condition. "Woeful errors of judgment"

2. Adjective. Unequivocally detestable. "Consequences odious to those you govern"

3. Adjective. Deserving a curse. "Her damnable pride"

Definition of Execrable

1. a. Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

Definition of Execrable

1. Adjective. Of the poorest quality. ¹

2. Adjective. Hateful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Execrable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Execrable

excusive excuss excussion excussions excycloduction excyclophoria excyclotorsion excyclotropia excyclovergence excystation

exduction exeat exeats exec exec. execrable (current term) execrableness execrablenesses execrably execrate

execrated execrates execrating execration execrations execrative execratives execrator execrators execratory

Literary usage of Execrable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... History of the execrable Irish Rebellion (London, 1680, and Dublin, 1743), a long correspondence between Ireton, the Cromwellian, and Preston, ..."

2. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"OF THE execrable DEVICES OF OLD WOMEN. IN the kingdom of a certain empress there lived a soldier who was happily espoused to a noble, chaste, and beautiful ..."

3. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"He declares that he is ' an atrocious and execrable wretch for ever inflicting upon Falkland an agony a thousand times worse than death. ..."

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