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execratory

execratory adjective: tending to execrate or cause execration.

Adjective

execratory (comparative more execratory, superlative most execratory)

  1. Tending to execrate or cause execration.
    • I shall take the liberty of narrating Lancelot's fanatical conduct, without execratory comment1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC

Forms of execratory

comparativemore execratory
superlativemost execratory

Questions about execratory

What does execratory mean?
Execratory means tending to execrate or cause execration.
What part of speech is execratory?
Execratory is an adjective.

Words near execratory in the dictionary

  1. execrative
  2. execratively
  3. execratives
  4. execrator
  5. execrators
  6. execratory
  7. execs
  8. exect
  9. exected
  10. execting
  11. exection

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