execrable

Example Sentences

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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

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 then not only took the case but issued this execrable ruling.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2022

Her parents are absent or execrable, she has no friends, and every disappointment is “one more nail” in the coffin of Jade’s dreams.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021

“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