execrable

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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.

From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster

This was the end of this Execrable wofull body of this miserable.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit

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

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

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

From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph

Execrable woman!" answered the Caliph; "cursed be the day thou gavest me birth!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright