Execrable

And while the Dutch superintendent, in execrable Spanish, shouted affirmations of Dutch neutrality into the menacing dark, across the gunwale of Chill II they found the body of the tow-headed youth whose business it had been not to die. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Christian religion depended upon his life; the efforts which he made for its destruction rendered his name execrable to the nations who have embraced it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The title being a neologism, Dassin was obliged to throw in an awkward explanatory scene in which a nightclub singer delivers a song riffing on the concept of "Rififi" ( "execrable" -- Truffaut). ❋ Unknown (2008)

I finally succeeded in relating my history, adventures and escape, and wound up with an appeal to their charity; setting forth my utterly destitute condition, in the most glowing terms my execrable Spanish would permit. ❋ Edwin Eastman (N/A)

The individual character of the creator was not without bearing upon the nature of his creatures; good was the necessary outcome of the good gods, evil of the evil ones; and herein lay the explanation of the mingling of things excellent and things execrable, which is found everywhere throughout the world. ❋ M. L. McClure (1881)

I had a duty to fulfil, much more terrible than yours, and I was obliged to recall our execrable oath in order to renew courage and strength to keep my promise. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)

I even have to be held back from tipping if the service has been execrable, which is silly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the same amount of money they paid for Bright Shiny Morning, a novel the LA Times called "execrable," Harper Collins could have hired thirty people at an actual living wage, plus health insurance, for a full year, to do literally nothing but sit around and come up with ideas on how to create a more sustainable publishing industry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That's the kind of execrable moral equivalence engaged in by the Soviets and their proxies, and it's the sort of thing that Andrew Sullivan used to oppose eloquently, before he started to engage in it himself. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

Derrida did that not because Wolin had acted illegally (he had not), not because Wolin had been discourteous (he was not), not because the translation is "execrable" (it is not, and there are infinitely worse translations of Derrida). ❋ Attridge, Derek (1993)

Nero had always hated, persecuted, and exiled the philosophers, and no doubt, so far as he knew anything of the Christians -- so far as he saw among his own countless slaves any who had embraced this superstition, which the _élite_ of Rome described as not only new, but "execrable" and ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)

“Besides, what am I to understand? you and Douglas Kinnaird, and others, write to me, that the two first published cantos are among the best that I ever wrote, and are reckoned so; Augusta writes that they are thought 'execrable' (bitter word that for an author ” eh, Murray?) as a composition even, and that she had heard so much against them that she would never read them, and never has. ❋ Byron, George G (1854)

You might want to get in a few "execrable" here and there just for variety and for good measure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He does have a point; when I read something from National Review, the word "execrable" does usually spring to mind. opiejeanne said, ❋ Unknown (2008)

Their dissolute character “is enough to induce every Man of Sense and Virtue to abandon such an execrable Race, to their own Perdition, and if they could be ruined alone it would be just.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The sovereign who has recourse to such execrable means should be regarded as the enemy of the human race; and the common safety of mankind calls on all nations to unite against him and join their forces to punish him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I pointed out to you awhile back that one of her Facebook friends is the equally execrable Adam Shapiro, founder of the ISM, and you dismissed that as not so meaningful a reflection of Whitson. ❋ Unknown (2010)