ex·e·cra·ble

(ĕk′sĭ-krə-bəl)

adj.

1. Deserving of execration; hateful.

2. Extremely inferior; very bad: an execrable meal.

[Middle English, from Latin execrābilis, from execrārī, exsecrārī, to execrate; see execrate.]

ex′e·cra·ble·ness n.

ex′e·cra·bly adv.

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Translations

exécrablement

execrably

[ˈeksɪkrəblɪ] ADV (frm) → execrablemente (frm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

execrably

[ˈɛksɪkrəblɪ] (frm) adv (see adj) → pessimamente, in modo esecrabile

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References in classic literature

Philip's knowledge of the language was small, but he knew enough to tell that Cronshaw, although he had lived in Paris for several years, spoke French execrably.

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But the night was long and dark: the snow heavily clogged the wheels and balled the horses' feet; the animals were consumedly lazy; the coachman most execrably cautious; the passengers confoundedly apathetic in their supine indifference to the rate of our progression.

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I had meant well by friend and foe in turn, and I had ended in doing execrably by both.

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Execrably, the UK's proclamation about standing with the 'principles' has a vile history.

Trouble in Hong Kong

Carpio more than implied that Filipino voters are either hopelessly dumb or execrably unprincipled, or both.

Still the best policy

The two times Asia Cup champions have lost the match from Tigers execrably. The poor performance of Shaheens has astounded and disappointed the entire nation.

Team's performance

It is obvious that the hose-drogue will shake execrably if no suppression scheme is introduced.

Antidisturbance Vibration Suppression of the Aerial Refueling Hose during the Coupling Process

But rarely, if ever, has a Premier League side turned up to the baptism of a new Tottenham manager and performed so execrably.

Spurs had half-hearted Hoops in their Pochett

Thomas Wolfe, the adjectival Tar Heel, not the dandified Virginia expositor of The Right Stuff, philosophized in his execrably titled You Can't Go Home Again that "A man learns a great deal about life from writing and publishing a book."

Look Homeward, Devil

Subprime residential had performed execrably, with most bonds suffering downgrades; expected pool losses were many times the projected tail losses, and it became obvious that the ratings models, which had attributed a probability of zero to the event of house price declines, had been fundamentally flawed.

The Federal Reserve's term asset-backed securities loan facility