Sentence example with the word 'execrable'

execrable

abhorrent, black, dark, disgusting, grave, knavish, miasmic, odious, reptilian, shameful, unworthy

Definition adj. of very poor quality or condition

Last update: August 19, 2015


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The news of this manifesto, arriving as it did simultaneously with that of Gdrgei's successes, destroyed the last vestiges of a desire of the Hungarian revolutionists to compromise, and on the 14th of April, on the motion of Kossuth, the diet proclaimed the independence of Hungary, declared the house of Habsburg as false and perjured, for ever excluded from the throne, and elected Kossuth president of the Hungarian Republic. This was an execrable blunder in the circumstances, and the results were fatal to the national cause.   [adjective]

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Pitt called him "an execrable, a sole minister who had renounced the British nation."   [adjective]

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"I think it a--bloody and execrable--murder and parricide--devised by hellish and implacable cruelty--utterly abominable, and a scandal to the land."   [adjective]

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He looked like a stern judge about to mount the tribunal to pronounce sentence with inexorable severity on some execrable crime.   [adjective]

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There have been execrable kings, and very tolerable tyrants.   [adjective]

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I saw Colonel Gardiner, a man whose fate alone is sufficient to render this insurrection for ever execrable.   [adjective]

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More than one group turned to stare as the little man began in execrable Dutch to explain his wants to the drawer.   [adjective]

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Hanover, the home of Continental tires, is surrounded in every direction with execrable cobblestones, or whatever the German equivalent is--"pflaster," the writer thinks.   [adjective]

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A stranger looking at it, would never have dreamed of its execrable uses.   [adjective]

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He ripped up Hugh Peters (calling him the execrable skellum), his preaching and stirring up the mayds of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles.   [adjective]

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The news of this manifesto, arriving as it did simultaneously with that of Gdrgei's successes, destroyed the last vestiges of a desire of the Hungarian revolutionists to compromise, and on the 14th of April, on the motion of Kossuth, the diet proclaimed the independence of Hungary, declared the house of Habsburg as false and perjured, for ever excluded from the throne, and elected Kossuth president of the Hungarian Republic. This was an execrable blunder in the circumstances, and the results were fatal to the national cause.   [Please select]

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