execrable

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.

Go on!” “Oh, no; it is execrable! — Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The speeches were bad --execrable almost without exception. — The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
Heaven hath not mercy to forgive such execrable guilt. — The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete, T. (Tobias) Smollett

deplorable, miserable, woeful, wretched

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