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  • Execrable is the man, however arrayed in magnificence, crowned with wealth, or decorated with the external graces and accomplishments of fashionable life, who shall presume to display them, at the expense of virtue and innocence!

    The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797

  • "Execrable," proclaims Rolling Stone, in a blog post that rivals their review of Gigli.

    Frank Lin: The Problem with Shock and Awe 2008

  • Execrable play and the futility of instruction were two common, comic themes.

    The Poetry of Golf 2010

  • The Richmond Dispatch referred to it as “Execrable New York” and likened it to Sodom, with the distinction that Sodom had one honorable man.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • The Richmond Dispatch referred to it as “Execrable New York” and likened it to Sodom, with the distinction that Sodom had one honorable man.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • The Richmond Dispatch referred to it as “Execrable New York” and likened it to Sodom, with the distinction that Sodom had one honorable man.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • The Richmond Dispatch referred to it as “Execrable New York” and likened it to Sodom, with the distinction that Sodom had one honorable man.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • Execrable wretch! could anything be more repulsive to true and delicate sentiment (as before, _à la Française_) "I should say his age was about forty."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • Execrable ventilation or absence thereof manufactured an atmosphere that reeked with heat animal and artificial and with ill-blended effluvia from a hundred sources.

    The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • Execrable, by the way, are the modern attempts seen side by side; feeble and incapable, not attempting any expression at all.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

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