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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

Then there would be one continual cheering all along as they passed, and all the women would cry, and the men would execrate Napoleon.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

That she had committed a technical offence is undeniable; but so did Andreas Hofer and other victims of Napoleonic tyranny whose doom patriotic Germans never cease to execrate.

From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Ernest Protheroe

Dannecker, like every patronized artist I ever met with, would execrate patronage if he dared.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

Alas, I also execrate them—yet I feign to applaud them.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

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

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

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

He welcomes any opportunity for war, but execrates militarism.

From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

The Countess Theudelinde sheds tears like a river; she execrates us all, and declares we have killed her hero.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

He begins to fear he shall lose his gold, and execrates his folly for incurring such heedless risk.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

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

Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house.

From Time Magazine Archive

Madame's ingratitude, my own easiness, the villagers' stupidity, I execrated all in turn; but most, perhaps, the inaction to which they condemned me.

From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

June 30th.—Once more all men are execrating Gen. Huger.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

The person they so basely employed did not succeed, but returned to Lisbon, execrating a plan he had not abilities to execute.

From Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia by T. Wilson

Chauvenet and Durand, as they marched ahead of their captors, divided the time between execrating each other and trying to make terms with Armitage.

From The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson

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

His other patient was no doubt already execrating him for not coming to time, so he drove off briskly; at least, so his pony flattered himself.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan