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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

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

“The Parent Trap” was such a success that “Let’s Get Together,” the execrable song that Mills was forced to sing in it, became a Top 10 hit.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 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