execrated
Example Sentences
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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
He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Toleration Sir: I got as great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ...
From Time Magazine Archive
This savage attack on their belief filled the Ultra-Calvinists with rage, and caused the name of the poet to be execrated as the personification of infamy.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
