Very few of the orchestra records were approved for issue and those that did appear on the market often combined excellent performances with embarrassingly execrable sound.
Where is that cursed and execrable dragon, who had claimed that this throne would be raised to the heights of heaven?
Leading a life so shameful, so foul, so execrable that he shuddered to describe it.
The adaptation has been called execrable and confusing for those not already familiar with the plot.
The cuts, he said, would be execrable and added up to about 75 minutes of film that was literal nonsense.
On the way to the scaffold he is said to have insulted the clergyman accompanying him and uttered execrable blasphemy to the last.
And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded.
A stranger looking at it, would never have dreamed of its execrable uses.