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Example sentences for "execrable"

Lexicographically close words:
excuses; excuseth; excusing; exeat; exec; execrably; execrate; execrated; execrating; execration
  1. A curse upon your execrable race, that crucified the Saviour of the world!

  2. You shall go to the bourgeois and artisans of the city and say to them: 'Renounce, good people, that execrable spirit of novelty, that diabolical passion that drives the vassal to rise against his master.

  3. A curse upon those who provoke these execrable strifes, that carry mourning into the camp of both the vanquishers and the vanquished!

  4. But what will you say, if I show you, in a warrant under your hand, this execrable and impious blasphemy?

  5. But do you allude to that execrable code, that authorises murder?

  6. I could not have imagined that it would have been necessary for me to have said that the execrable trash entitled "Tears of Sensibility" was merely a burlesque on the style of the magazine verses of the day.

  7. But-- “To what infamies untold Hast thou man’s nature not controlled, Thou execrable greed of gold!

  8. So he gallantly offered his hand to his dear, adorable, and execrable wife; the mysterious woman to whom he owed so many pleasures, so many pains, and perhaps also a great part of his genius.

  9. Such was the poet from whom the mob of Athens snatched the laurel to bestow it upon a mean and execrable scribbler, and to one hundred of whose comedies the prize was denied, while only eight of them were rewarded with it.

  10. I see a sect the most execrable and pernicious that ever was in the world.

  11. Then what must we expect, seeing that it has already, for so long a period, been converted into such an execrable sacrifice as is your mass?

  12. The death-like silence which for nearly two centuries brooded over her execrable system has been broken; light is pouring in upon the minds of her citizens; truth is abroad, "searching out and overturning the lies of the age.

  13. It stood only upon its own execrable foundation of robbery and wrong.

  14. There is no opinion more firmly fixed in the minds of the people of to-day, at least according to the journals, than that the union of church and state is execrable and ought not to be suffered to exist.

  15. She was anxious for me, she could not control her suspense; she saw the execrable Tiberius.

  16. She went on with her story--an old, miserable, detestable, execrable story.

  17. I did not know whom I should have the pleasure of seeing," said he in his execrable French.

  18. He then shows the kind of power, which has supported this execrable trade.

  19. I bought these, not because it was difficult to conceive how the unhappy victims of this execrable trade were confined, but to show the fact that they were so.

  20. They were elective too; and in this respect the primitive institutions of Ireland were founded upon that execrable system which has distracted and destroyed every kingdom in which it has been attempted.

  21. These matters may verie rightfullie denounce vnto all the world hir execrable abominations, and well iustifie the iudgement she had, and the execution she was put to for the same.

  22. It was impossible to me thenceforward to do without the incessant agitation of a life fraught with danger at every moment, or to dispense with the execrable refinements of luxury.

  23. The execrable Euphrasia, in all the splendor of her toilette, with its orient pearls, had come thither, impatient for her ardent, elderly admirer.

  24. The first volume of Spenser is published with prints, designed by Kent; but the most execrable performance you ever beheld.

  25. Penshurst, having been directed to what they call a better road than the execrable one we had gone.

  26. I suppose you know all that execrable history that occasioned an insurrection lately at Paris, where they were taking up young children to try to people one of their colonies, in which grown persons could never live.

  27. In the recent exhibition of National Portraits at South Kensington were nineteen portraits of Queen Elizabeth, wonderful examples of her fantastic and execrable taste.

  28. And we may see among her 19 pictures here wonderful examples of her fantastic and execrable taste.

  29. Is there, then, a still worse and more execrable crime than to be a traitor to his king and master, and to speak of the anointed of the Lord without reverence and love?

  30. Yes, my lady, you are right; that is a more execrable and unnatural crime, and we shall judge it strictly.

  31. Calvin’s doctrine of predestination is avoided, and his theory of the Lord’s Supper is taught in a form approaching as near as possible to the Lutheran view, but the Roman Catholic mass is characterized as execrable idolatry.

  32. Amherst rejoined: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.

  33. Nor are these the only well-attested instances of such execrable inhumanity.

  34. The cursed, hellish villainy, treachery, treasons of the Scots, were the chief grounds and causes of that execrable rebellion.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "execrable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhorrent; abject; abominable; arrant; atrocious; awful; bad; base; beastly; beggarly; black; blamed; blameworthy; blighted; blinding; blinking; blistering; bloody; blooming; cheesy; confounded; contemptible; criminal; crude; crummy; cursed; damn; damnable; damned; dark; debased; demoniacal; deplorable; depraved; despicable; detestable; devilish; diabolic; diabolical; dirty; disgraceful; disgusting; evil; execrable; fetid; fiendish; flagrant; forbidding; foul; fulsome; ghoulish; goddamn; grave; gross; hate; hateful; heinous; hellish; hideous; ignoble; improper; infamous; infernal; iniquitous; knavish; little; loathsome; low; malodorous; mean; measly; miasmic; miserable; monstrous; nasty; naughty; nauseating; nefarious; noisome; noxious; objectionable; obnoxious; obscene; odious; offensive; outrageous; paltry; peccant; petty; poky; poor; rank; regrettable; repellent; reprehensible; reprobate; reptilian; repugnant; repulsive; revolting; ruddy; scabby; scandalous; scrubby; scurvy; shabby; shameful; shoddy; sickening; sinful; small; sordid; squalid; stinking; ugly; unforgivable; ungodly; unmentionable; unpardonable; unspeakable; unworthy; vicious; vile; villainous; wicked; wretched; wrong