execrable

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There was some execrable haggling as to whether Mr. Hayes Fisher or Mr. Logan should make the first apology--execrable, I say, because a gentleman never ought to haggle over an apology if he feels that he has been in the wrong, and because nobody could deny that Mr. Fisher had been the original wrongdoer.

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  1. adjective Deserving of execration; hateful.
  2. adjective Extremely inferior; very bad: an execrable meal.

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  • The particular weekly that you want is not taken in; the dinner is execrable, and the ventilation a farce. —  The Riddle of the Sands
  • Their oppression had been execrable, and it had become absolutely unendurable. —  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The acting was mostly mediocre-execrable (Frieda Pinto, I'm looking at you). —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • Especially eschewed as execrable was the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee's assertion that Obama's domestic alliances and foreign policies were "dangerous." —  Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog
  • When I'm standing around in casual conversation with folks I do not hesitate to make strongly critical remarks about leaders whose policies I find execrable, and I'll not stop doing that. —  UUpdates - All updates
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  1. Middle English, from Latin execrābilis, from execrārī, exsecrārī, to execrate; see execrate.

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  1. = French exécrable = Spanish execrable = Portuguese execravel = Italian esecrabile, from Latin execrabilis, exsecrabilis, from execrare, exsecrare, curse: see execrate.
 

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/ˈɛksəkrəbl/
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