(a.) Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system.
(2) A critical review of epidemiological and experimental data from the literature has been made in an attempt to present an objective picture of this controversial and sensitive question and to encourage further research, which may ultimately determine whether arsenic deserves its execrable reputation.
(3) LP: My only experience of this was - and this might end up selling a lot of videos of a film that no one's ever seen - I produced a really execrable film in the mid-70s called Lisztomania, and I hope that no one here's seen it.
(4) Unrecorded in the YouGov poll are people who dislike all-women shortlists but dislike yet more the reason for their continued existence: the very culture that just created the execrable, the relentlessly mocked Woman Who Made up Her Mind .
(5) Its performance over the scandal of Winterbourne View was execrable, and this seemed to speak of much wider and more fundamental problems in its approach, resourcing and leadership.
(6) For the dark knight, readers will recall with horror George Clooney's bemused and Bat-nippled turn in the execrable Batman and Robin in 1997.
(7) The narrator, Nancy Hawkins, is a woman editor in a publishing house in the 1950s; her sworn enemy the execrable, self-congratulatory writer Hector Bartlett, to whom she refers to as the pisseur de copie.
(8) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(9) PII certificates, he said, had previously been greeted by "howls of execration".
(10) Those movies include turkeys such as Jack and Jill and the execrable That's My Boy , though the rather better-performing Grown Ups 2 does not feature for statistical purposes because it falls outside the time period being factored in by Forbes.
(11) Lucas, the ultimate fanboy, has been the biggest culprit with his execrable prequels.
(12) I can already hear the howls of execration: now you're claiming that this cooling is the result of warming!
(13) His sweeping pronouncements never fail to set the leaves aflutter in the groves of academe, and his name surely is execrated in cultural studies departments from sea to shining sea across America.
(14) I’d like to be there, watching, when the old family films are played, and I’d like to impose my execrable musical taste on my friends and watch their faces as they suffer it.
(15) Ford, who is currently promoting his role in the sci-fi movie Ender's Game , is also taking a role in the latest film in Sylvester Stallone's execrable Expendables series .
Odious
Definition:
(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.
Example Sentences:
(1) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(2) Theodore Olson, the lead co-counsel for two of the Virginia plaintiffs, described it as a “ great day” for Virginia and said he looked forward to working with Herring to strike down the state's “odious marriage ban”.
(3) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(4) Bear-baiting was an odious entertainment, but remained legal in Britain until 1835, when it was banned by parliament.
(5) – and few Democrats had trouble understanding why such a "request" was so odious.
(6) Odious debt is a legal term usually applied to the endowments of dictators in the developing world.
(7) Surkov himself, ever ironic and self-possessed, has quipped that he is "too odious for this brave new world".
(8) They required Cameron's personal stamp of approval on an odious regime before signing.
(9) I know that the chances of getting any of this debt recognised as odious, especially by the current government, are small to say the least.
(10) And for an internet campaign, it is the answer to dealing with the odious pick-up artist and “guru” Julien Blanc .
(11) Those who still cling to the worryingly fashionable idea that the British Empire was ultimately a force for civilisation, order and the building of railways should now look away; the presence of the Cajun people in Louisiana attests to one of the more odious chapters of our colonial history.
(12) In a brief statement, Sarkozy told Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg that he condemned "with the utmost gravity this odious and unacceptable action" that had taken place, and conveyed French sympathy to the Norwegian people.
(13) Robin Williams's schoolteacher in 2009's World's Greatest Dad is plagued by his odious teen.
(14) President Barack Obama rebranded the "war on terror" innocuously as "overseas contingency operations", but, rather than retrench from the odious practices of his predecessor, Obama instead escalated.
(15) I can excoriate, deplore and refuse all dealings with odious speech or publication.
(16) US president Barack Obama called it "odious" and said it is "unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are".
(17) When the bill was first proposed, Barack Obama called it "odious".
(18) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
(19) A prime minister using such irresponsible and odious language about desperate people deserves widespread criticism.
(20) If the extremist’s opinions are demonstrably odious and absurd, then what better way could there possibly be to expose them than the bright light of open, public debate?