execrable

  • 21execrable — See execrable, inexecrable …

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  • 22execrable — adjective formal extremely bad: execrable handwriting execrably adverb: execrably bad …

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  • 23execrable — adjective an execrable piece of work Syn: appalling, atrocious, lamentable, egregious, awful, dreadful, terrible; disgusting, deplorable, disgraceful, frightful, reprehensible, abhorrent, loathsome, odious, hateful, vile, abysmal …

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  • 24execrable — ex•e•cra•ble [[t]ˈɛk sɪ krə bəl[/t]] adj. 1) utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent 2) very bad: an execrable stage performance[/ex] • Etymology: 1480–90; ME < L ex(s) ecrābilis accursed, detestable. See execrate, able ex′e•cra•ble•ness, n …

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  • 25execrable — /ˈɛksəkrəbəl / (say eksuhkruhbuhl) adjective 1. deserving to be execrated; detestable; abominable. 2. very bad: an execrable pun. –execrably, adverb …

  • 26execrable, inexecrable — Execrable means very bad, abominable, detestable : The drunken actor gave an execrable performance. Your rude behavior is execrable. Inexecrable occasionally appears in print, but it is obsolete and is probably mistaken for some such word as… …

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  • 27execrable — adjective a) of the poorest quality b) hateful Syn: abhorrent, abominable, atrocious, deplorable, despicable …

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  • 28execrable — Synonyms and related words: abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheesy, contemptible, criminal, crude, crummy, cursed, damn,… …

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  • 29execrable — e|xe|cra|ble Mot Pla Adjectiu invariable …

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  • 30execrable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. abominable, bad, detestable; poor, inferior, wretched. See badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Abominable] Syn. detestable, confounded, vile; see offensive 2 . 2. [Inferior] Syn. bad, defective,… …

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