Example Sentences

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Back in the benighted 20th century comic books were seen as subliterate trash for kiddies and intellectually challenged adults – badly written, hastily drawn and execrably printed.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019

This has been widely and often breathlessly echoed in the popular media—remember the execrably reported Time cover story on “A World Without Bees.”

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2017

He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only.

From Time Magazine Archive

All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Miss Dawson dresses execrably, I grant you; but give her one half of the advantages of the girls that you see around you in society, and she would be not only pretty, but beautiful."

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor