Antonyms for execrable

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ek-si-kruh-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛk sɪ krə bəl

Definition of execrable

Origin : late 14c., from Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis/exsecrabilis "execrable, accursed," from execrari/exsecrari (see execrate). Related: Execrably.

adj horrible, sickening

Example sentences :

And he's likely to talk the most execrable slang, or to quote Browning.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Ah, I would willingly have killed that execrable Smith, for he was poisoning my life.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Not a word of it seemed to be true, and the style in which it was written was execrable.
Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf

Why should not they admit that little picture, although he himself thought it execrable?
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

The host of the little inn had not exaggerated—the road was execrable.
Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever

But the dinner was execrable, and all the feast was for the eyes.
Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad

It is execrable stuff—the milk of sirens mingled with sea-water.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various

"Just time if we put on some speed; but the roads are execrable," he vouchsafed.
Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil

United with these execrable traits of character, there were others, to which we have already alluded, which were alluring.
Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott

When the ladies had retired, the Colonel handed James an execrable cigar.
Extract from : « The Hero » by William Somerset Maugham

Synonyms for execrable

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