Appalling and Execrable

noun

• An experience that appalls.
  • usage: "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it"

verb

• Strike with disgust or revulsion.
  • usage: "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
  • synonyms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
• Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
  • usage: "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
  • synonyms: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify
• Strike with disgust or revulsion.
  • usage: "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
  • synonyms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
• Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
  • usage: "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
  • synonyms: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify

adjective

• Causing consternation.
  • usage: "appalling conditions"
  • synonyms: dismaying

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Appall.
• (a.) Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident.

adjective

• Of very poor quality or condition.
  • usage: "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
  • synonyms: deplorable, miserable, woeful, wretched
• Unequivocally detestable."abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern- Edmund Burke
  • synonyms: abominable, detestable, odious
• Deserving a curse.
  • usage: "her damnable pride"
  • synonyms: damnable

(a.) Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.