How to Use execrable in a Sentence

execrable

adjective

• Living conditions in the slums were execrable.
• The first Bernie’s was execrable in this reader’s eyes, which is not meant to insult the movie’s star.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Given the success of Van Wilder, no one at the company was opposed to licensing the brand, but the first projects Laikin brought in were execrable.
  — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
• As most readers know, what came after Netscape was brilliant once in a very blue moon, good on occasion, but execrable for the most part.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• The first is the execrable former chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 15 Feb. 2022
• There have been scores of books about India that focus on its poverty, some sensitive and soulful, others frankly execrable.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 July 2018
• Why hire this partisan, the White House acting chief of staff for a time, who had such an execrable record of enabling his boss’s corruption and reinforcing his lies?
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2022
• From America’s perspective, New Start is an execrable deal, a...
  — John Bolton, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2017
• But while the New Yorker focused its ire on the execrable Gateway Pundit, that particular cretin hasn’t been given a single question.
  — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
• Reports of execrable schools in Gateway cities are legion: mold and rodents in a New Bedford elementary, classrooms with no windows in Holyoke.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Even Fox News has wandered into the comedy-variety space, most recently with the execrable Gutfeld!
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2021
• In the soft pink dusk, as a perfect full moon rose out of the mountains, even the execrable post war concrete buildings below that so despoil the landscape here and throughout this ravishing island somehow managed to fade before nature’s majesty.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 11 July 2017
• Trump can and should free America from this execrable deal at the earliest opportunity.
  — John R. Bolton, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• Its execrable conditions led most of the city’s public employee unions to file grievances this year and resulted in a complaint from the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2017
• Theoretically, the execrable Buccos offer the Reds a last, best chance at winning WC2, but since no contender seems very interested in winning anything, maybe losing two of three up there won’t make any difference.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Sep. 2021
• Remember when Uber was in trouble because a top executive said execrable things about targeting journalists?
  — Marcus Wohlsen, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2014
• Think of all those execrable late-night television hosts piecing together absurdly out-of-context video clips of Republican politicians or doing man-on-the-street interviews using techniques similar to Cohen’s.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 25 June 2019
• The drop in complaints coincides with initiatives at each company designed to overcome their execrable reputations for customer relations.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Maybe there is a hypothetical contingency for which F-35 isn’t fully ready in its baseline configuration, but after watching the execrable performance of Russian military forces in Ukraine for two months, this concern does not seem urgent.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 3 May 2022

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024