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very bad- Excuse me if my little compliment seems in execrable taste; fortunately my wife doesn't hear me.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- You have such execrable taste, my pet.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- Since China has few forests, much of its paper is made from straw or bamboo and is of execrable quality.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had always been bad, became fearfully bad.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Excuse me if my little compliment seems in execrable taste; fortunately my wife doesn't hear me.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Oh, no; it is execrable!Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- My early poetry was execrable.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- She is an artist,—outside of her painting, which obviously is execrable.Henry James -- The American
- Peste, I will do nothing of the kind; the moment they come from government you would find them execrable.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Mrs. Otter hesitated to translate, and Miss Price repeat ed in execrable French.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- The boy's handwriting was execrable, so that William, who did all things well, got into a fever of impatience.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- His coats were execrable; his hat not to be handled.Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- I play upon that execrable scoundrel with a fire-engine until the breath is nearly driven out of his body.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- While these thoughts were passing through my brain, I mechanically took up the execrable puzzle and tried every imaginable way of grouping the letters.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Your Minister may perhaps be good as a Minister, but as a general he is not merely bad but execrable, yet to him is entrusted the fate of our whole country....Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- All vote to leave that execrable shore, Polluted with the blood of Polydore; But, ere we sail, his fun'ral rites prepare, Then, to his ghost, a tomb and altars rear.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- That upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable Yahoos.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- The Grève had then that sinister aspect which it preserves to-day from the execrable ideas which it awakens, and from the sombre town hall of Dominique Bocador, which has replaced the Pillared House.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- But when at last, he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into a corner whence there was no escape; then his conduct was the most execrable.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol