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execrable

[ek-si-kruh-buhl] / ˈɛk sɪ krə bəl /


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I almost feel bad for him trying so pathetically to defend such an execrable entity like the Iranian regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Things got even hairier when Usha’s execrable husband, Vice President J.D.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

Since becoming team president in the 2013-14 season, Jeanie Buss and her hand-picked executive brain trust have compiled an execrable 287-427 record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2022

And the aforementioned Land, Air & Sea, in which the fish and chicken patties of the Filet-O-Fish and the McChicken, respectively, were inserted into a Big Mac, was truly execrable.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022

“Within perhaps a week,” recalled a student, “there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin


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