What is "execrable"

Usage examples of "execrable".

So eager were they to admire something, that often the most execrable works threw them into a state of exaltation similar to that which the purest masterpieces produce.

Nothing execrable was wanting, neither military scenes full of little leaden soldiers, nor wan antiquity, nor the middle ages, smeared, as it were, with bitumen.

He thought there was something very sad about that execrable painting, and the wasted life of that peasant who was a victim of middle-class admiration.

And you souse all that with deftness, that execrable deftness of the fingers which would just as well carve cocoanuts, the flowing, pleasant deftness that begets success, and which ought to be punished with penal servitude, do you hear?

I, whom the imperfection of my work pursues even in my sleep --I, who never look over the pages of the day before, lest I should find them so execrable that I might afterwards lack the courage to continue.

Annixter, in execrable temper, appeared from time to time, hatless, his stiff yellow hair in wild disorder.

French gentlemen, since the execrable French Revolution, have lost their proper sense of the distinctions of Class.

Can it be that the roar of its furnace shall rage on, and the wail of the execrable anguish ascend, eternally?

Here he saw Judas Iscariot in execrable tortures, regularly respited, however, every week from Saturday eve till Sunday eve!

Probably nothing was ever seen in this world more execrable or more dreadful than those great ceremonies celebrated in Spain and Portugal, in the seventeenth century, at the execution of heretics condemned to death by the Inquisition.

I looked over her shoulder and broke into a cold perspiration at beholding an execrable three-quarters length cut of my darling son superscribed by his name in holograph.

In an execrable left-slanting hand, he announced, employing a sardonic tone that had not been present in his first letters from Lisbon, that the old tubafter a series of delays, reversals, mechanical failures, and governmental tergiversations, had finally been cleared yet againfor departure, on the second of December.

In the first grey of the dawn we arose and ate a little black bread and very salt bacon, washed down with some execrable coffee, then leading our horses out of the cowhouse in which we had installed them the night before, and from which we had had to turn out a couple of very evil-smelling beasts, we sallied forth to the apparently hopeless task of discovering the direction in which the column had moved.

Aside from Hotten Sonntag only Mahlke could compete, but so execrable were his swing and split -- his knees were bent and he was all tensed up -- that none of us could bear to watch him.

That is to say, in his obligation to look in on her and see that she was not inconvenienced by one thing and another such as this execrable khamseen which fortunately Tunisia did not often experience, as it was usually found in Algerie and Maroc and other vaguely uncouth areas.