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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

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