execrable

adjective
🔊/ˈeksɪkrəbl/
🔊/ˈeksɪkrəbl/
(formal)
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  1. very bad糟糕的;拙劣的;极坏的 synonym terrible
    • execrable poetry高尚的诗歌
    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘expressing or involving a curse’): via Old French from Latin execrabilis, from exsecrari ‘to curse’, based on sacrare ‘dedicate’ (from sacer ‘sacred’).