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He behaves execrably with women and money, and even his friends on occasion.

Did your execrably unappetizing meal disagree with you and bring on an evil dream?

It's no news, of course, that so many recent memoirs, good and bad, well or execrably written, deal with hurt and healing.

But doing something first doesn't mean doing it best, and this remains an execrably twee image.

But he did not write execrably."

He played execrably.

The pioneer test-takers performed execrably.

Besides, how vile, contemptible, ridiculous, What act more execrably unclean, prophane?

All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating.

It was execrably written, with such a squeezing together of the letters and absence of columns that it really did look like a continuous, meaningless squiggle.

The duty, neither just nor wise, Compels me to economize -- Whereby my broilers, every one, Are execrably underdone.

The wood, it seemed, was full of execrably sighing voices, and weird whimpers and little moanings as of imp-children astray from Satanic dams.

Philip's knowledge of the language was small, but he knew enough to tell that Cronshaw, although he had lived in Paris for several years, spoke French execrably.

"I think it was a mistake, and it was certainly execrably executed, but, contrary to your fears, it can be made to work for us if we play our cards right."

The final episodes, in which Katherine realizes that her fabulous new husband is a full- blown psychopath, are so execrably written that they threaten to give popcorn fiction a bad name.

I was even downcast when Lennie Henry and Dawn French were cleft asunder, even though I find them both execrably, assininely unfunny.

One critic at the Globe and Mail described it as "execrably written and acted" while another strained to find positive elements, "At times, there is a plodding workmanlike quality to Shattered City."

Medical concerns continue in Ron Felber's IL DOTTORE: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor (Barricade, $24.95), an execrably written exercise in mob minutiae that tells the tale of one physician's close encounters with the Mafia.