MEANING
Extremely bad or deserving intense condemnation.
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- execrable conduct
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His execrable conduct cost him every ally.
The witness described an execrable betrayal.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more execrable; superlative most execrable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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