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

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

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

And within a week, recalled one of his students, he had filled his office blackboard in LeConte Hall with “a drawing—very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik