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Recent Examples of execrable The working conditions in those factories, often staffed by children, were execrable; the horror stories that emerged, of mangled limbs and bodies, eventually helped encourage reform. Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023 My grandfather purchased it—along with a sweet fake Renoir and an execrable Modigliani—while living in Buenos Aires in the early Sixties. Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022 Get this execrable liar out of Congress. Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 16 May 2022 Here are a handful of quick Thesaurus pulls to help paint a picture of how the unit played: unpropitious, cataclysmic, demoralizing, execrable. Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for execrable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for execrable
Adjective
  • This is, on paper, a terrible idea for all involved.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • State of play: Cleveland is terrible at planting trees.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • And another research team, using data from 2015 to 2022, observed in an article available in Energy Research and Social Science that poor income distribution correlates with social unrest when fossil fuel subsidies are removed.
    Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Studies have also shown that exercising during times of poor air quality—for instance, when there is a high level of these fine particulates in the air—is detrimental to our health.
    Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • As are the people supporting or justifying these vile acts of terrorism.
    Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
  • And for anyone who's forgotten just how vile Whitfield is, the next scene serves as a nasty reminder.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Some compare Sanders to Geno Smith — not flattering, but not horrible.
    Troy Renck, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Everybody's going to be thrown, according to , into all these horrible situations.
    Hugh Cameron, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Read: The cost of avoiding microplastics In the mid-1990s, China emerged as the principal destination for used cups, straws, and the like; the country’s growing manufacturing sector was eager to make use of cheap, recycled raw plastic.
    Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Seeds are also cheaper than purchasing young plants.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And then, to top a nasty joke with a nastier one, he was deemed useless for the final twenty years of his life.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • That jab opened up several nasty cuts around Rountree's eye and on the bridge of his nose.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Fairfield County corridor is infamously awful, according to Potamkin Hyundai, with the Stamford stretch recently ranking as the number one busiest highway segment in the entire country.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But Ovechkin has been scoring 50 goals (a season) for an awful long time now.
    Homero De la Fuente, CNN, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Townsend’s warbler is named after John Kirk Townsend, who thought Native Americans were racially inferior and stole skulls from graves in a misguided and vile attempt to prove it.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Frontier revived its takeover efforts earlier this year, but Spirit had said the first offer was inferior to the one the two companies had discussed last year and sought an assurance that the deal would close and Frontier would not walk away.
    Reuters, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Execrable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/execrable. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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