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

"I would execrate it were it a Stradivarius," said he, his mouth full of sop.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

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

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

All they can do, then, is to conceal these cruelties from the eyes of the people who already execrate him for his many roughnesses and the undoubted shadow under which he lives.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

Let other states think what they will of it, there is one reason why every Pennsylvanian should execrate this imposition upon mankind.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester