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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
  • Other adults in the room opt to avert their eyes as Jamie disrobes, but Eddie can’t turn away, out of a mix of protectiveness and horrified shock, in the same way that there’s no editor to protect the characters, the actors, or the audience from having to live in each terrible moment of the scene.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Traditional networks grant access just because a device is on the network, which is a terrible idea.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But there is another concerning trend and area that has to be improved — their poor record on second balls.
    Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The Heat holds a poor 9-24 record this season in games against teams currently with a winning record.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Oakland Jewish Alliance, a grassroots organization formed in the wake of these vile acts, has reported over 400 incidents of antisemitic graffiti around the Lake Merritt/Lakeshore neighborhoods in a one-year period.
    Mark Cohen, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Charlie Kirk is a vile bigot, and standing with him on this issue is profoundly disturbing.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This is really happening and these horrible things are happening and that this person doesn't want to be happening.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The tech giant had a horrible week, off nearly 11% in the period despite Friday’s relief bounce.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 14 Mar. 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
  • My problem is, one family member opens cards that have been left there for my daughter, and puts all sorts of cheap decorations around her grave.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 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
  • Fancy record-cleaning machines like this one from Pro-Ject ($450) use a platter and a vacuum system to physically suck the nasty cleaning solution out of the grooves, with a motor that spins the record in two directions.
    Parker Hall, WIRED, 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 19 Mar. 2025.

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