The new artist took pride in his masterpiece which some people considered as an execrable work. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : an execrable stage performance. From Dictionary.com.
I even have to be held back from tipping if the service has been execrable, which is silly. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
You fellows, weally, dress in execrable taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference
You might want to get in a few "execrable" here and there just for variety and for good measure. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
He does have a point; when I read something from National Review, the word "execrable" does usually spring to mind. opiejeanne said. From Wordnik.com. [Sadly, No!] Reference
What art thou, execrable shape, that darest advance?. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
His moral tone generally is low, and often it is execrable. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
In reality their tempers are often execrable -- infernal! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Throughout the island, the carriages for hire are execrable. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
In the Inca pedigrees Toledo is called "el execrable regicidio.". From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
The painting is still good, but the work and the subjects are execrable!. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
And it was her husband who was aiding this inevitable and execrable meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Once again Boer wiliness had been rendered ineffectual owing to execrable marksmanship. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Anybody can make anybody else's dish -- still some versions are glorious, some execrable. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Here's Why Dilbert Loves Newser] Reference
The whole of this stanza is bad; -- the last four lines of it simply and purely execrable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Two of them sailed on this execrable trade in February last, from a port visited by the writer. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
By last Friday Limbaugh was relying on the sort of evasiveness that he finds so execrable in others. From Wordnik.com. [Rush's World Of Pain] Reference
That is, he permitted his sanctuary to be destroyed, as if it had not been consecrated, but execrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The chances of the inexorable and, to his mind, execrable tide of history being reversed are "not good.". From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: Right And Wrong] Reference
Friendship, gratitude, generosity, all the good feelings I had, have been consumed by this execrable love. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A vast multitude viewed this spectacle, so execrable in its cruelty, so great in the deportment of the sufferers. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Christians, of whose company he made himself worthy, with such outrages, most grave sins and execrable abominations. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
And that from thenceforth they should not suffer their vertues to be obscured by the clouds of such execrable vices. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
His notes, as may be seen from a reproduction of a page of his manuscripts (facing p. 38), were in an execrable hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The greater thiefe, the better manne: the moste execrable murtherer, a moste mete persone, for soche state of gouernemente. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
The roadbed was execrable, the trucks of the cars were without springs, and to me it seemed as if we must leave the rails at any moment. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
If we continue to do thus, it will not be in the power of the execrable junto to prevent us from having a safe and honorable peace next winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
It's sad to think young people today may know this gifted actor primarily as Ben Stiller's hippy-dippy Dad in the execrable "Meet the Fockers" (2004). From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies] Reference
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