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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

The orchestral poem of Pelléas et Mélisande I have yet to enjoy or execrate; there seems to be no middle term for Schoenberg's amazing art.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

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

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

"I say again: "'Mon ami, do not execrate your own image.'

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

I am fully informed, my precious sister, of your terrible situation; I will not stop now to execrate your infernal pursuer, though he will not lose my execrations by the delay!

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Raoul of Montjoire execrates the black-frocked militia as much as I do myself.

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue

The gentix ber contradicts, jeers at, and execrates his sovereign and his fellows with the utmost freedom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

"A rather interesting feature about dad," whispered Margaret with mischief in her eyes, "is that when he's angry he curses in French, and when he's mad he execrates in German."

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

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

Virginia, and execrates Maryland, which, by-the-by, I provok'd them to; for, though I admire both Virginia and Maryland, I laugh'd at the former and prais'd the latter; ridicul'd their manner of speaking.

From American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 12. Second Series by John Jay Smith

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 dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Hain't hit outdacious," execrated Mrs. Doggett, "him been here ever' sence the flood might' night', and a talkin' that away?"

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

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

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

Furiously he dashed into the thick of the conflict, and Triboulet, paralyzed with fear and dropping his lance, was borne helplessly onward, execrating the nag and his capricious humor.

From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham

Before the "Lightning" had dropped her anchor, the whole population of Penzance was out, gesticulating, pointing, execrating.

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

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