execrable

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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

The video clip of team highlights over the decades, scored by the execrable Train song “Calling All Angels,” was longer than ever, and more desperate.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

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

The record for most tie-breaking votes overall is still held by the execrable John C. Calhoun with 31, but he didn't cast any of them until nearly a year into his vice presidency.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 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