execrate
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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
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Presently the fish, not being properly banked, would have broken the gut and torn themselves from the hook, leaving me in bewilderment and shame, to execrate my ain stupid indecision.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
He knew that many would justly execrate his name until the end.
From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
We but smile at the one, we would learn to execrate the other.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
Why do we execrate in one set of men, what we laud so highly in another?
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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