execrate

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.

From "1984" by George Orwell

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

And just as I reverence this, do I execrate, with all my heart's indignation, a corrupt judicature.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

The human masses execrate the scourge, but accept it passively.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

Will they not execrate the memory of those ancestors, who, having it in their power to avert evil, have, like their first parents, entailed a curse upon all future generations?

From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by St. George Tucker

He execrates Racine, and treats him as a sorry sort of man.

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

How one loves Canova the man, and how one execrates Canova the artist!

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

Well, you are, thank God, remote from this epoch and fond of things which it knows nothing about or execrates, and a work of that kind would take you still further away.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

They cannot bestow their hostility on one who loathes and execrates them more than I do, or who will oppose their views with more zeal, when the opportunity offers.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

She execrates indeed   The tyranny that doomed them to the fire,   But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.

From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper

This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2016

You either execrated them and were on the side of history, or enjoyed them and missed the bus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry Cabot Lodge, late Senator, honored in New England and execrated in the South, bearded and full of strange erudition, last week posthumously published a book, The Senate and The League of Nations.*

From Time Magazine Archive

"From his childhood," says his biographer, "he kept the canons, and execrated the teachings of heretics;" and he tells us that this last phrase is Origen's own.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Thus the crowd of notables packed into the anterooms waited at the door, fuming and execrating, yet not departing.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough

I laid the bundle of splints and rolls of linen down on the table with a professional air, while I was inwardly execrating my father's negligence.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton

When all Great Britain was execrating Napoleon, picturing him as a devil with horns and hoofs, Byron looked upon him as the world's hero.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

Strongly convinced of the divinity of the Church, his passionate nature could not help execrating the human element that would weaken her influence.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery

And then talk went on, stiffly, each of its contribuents execrating its stiffness, but seeing no way to relaxation.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan