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Execrably

Execrable \Ex"e*cra*ble\, a. [L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf. F. ex['e]crable. See Execrate.] Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. ``Execrable pride.''
--Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

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execrably

adv. In an execrable way.

Usage examples of "execrably".

Despite the garish blue paint with which the _tavernaris_ had covered everything in sight--walls, tables, chairs, shelves all in the same execrably vivid colour (blue and red for the wine shops, green for the sweetmeats shops was the almost invariable rule throughout the islands)--it was a gloomy, ill-lit place, as gloomy almost as the stern, righteous, magnificently-moustached heroes of the Wars of Independence whose dark, burning eyes glared down at them from a dozen faded prints scattered at eye-level along the walls.

If Tom Sawyer enjoyed himself more in watching a dog play with a pinch-bug in church than in listening to a doctrinal sermon, if he had a better time playing hookey than in attending the execrably dull school, Mark Twain is eager to expose the hypocrisy of those who would misrepresent Tom's real attitude toward church and school.

He behaves execrably with women and money, and even his friends on occasion.

Beaumaris’s execrably packed portmanteau than from a respect for his master’s abstraction.