execrable

execrable, damnable, accursed, cursed mean so odious as to deserve cursing or condemning. In actual use they vary little if any in force and only slightly in implications, although usage to a certain extent limits their applications.

Execrable is applied chiefly to what is bad beyond description

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execrable poetry

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an execrable performance of Hamlet

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the concurrent possession of great wealth and execrable taste—Wylie

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Damnable and accursed are applied most often either to persons, their acts, and their vices or to things that excite righteous indignation and strong condemnation

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unless that man in there is to be given a chance of expiation in another life, then capital punishment is a damnable horror— Mackenzie

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accursed tower! accursed fatal hand that hath contrived this woeful tragedy!— Shak.

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Cursed varies in dignity, sometimes being applied to what merely excites profanity and sometimes to what is intrinsically worthy of imprecation

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merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose!— Shak.

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Analogous words: *outrageous, atrocious, heinous, monstrous: *base, low, vile: loathsome, revolting, repulsive, *offensive, repugnant