Word to the Wise: Execrable

"Execrable" (EK-sih-kruh-bul) - from the Latin - means utterly detestable.

Example (as used by Owen Powell in The New York Times): "Meals consisted of the execrable MREs, which we often wolfed down to the chorus of incoming mortar rounds."

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