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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

We but smile at the one, we would learn to execrate the other.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson

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 Anna Katharine Green

But, stop, my dear sir, I would say to him; you ought not to execrate them all, because I had the misfortune of having fallen among a few american rogues.

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Joseph Rocchietti

I despise it, and I execrate a tyrant wherever he may be, and in every country where the people are struggling for the right of self-government I sympathize with them in their struggle.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

She execrates indeed     The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire,     But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

Beatrice Patrick Campbell is especially an artist, and her talent is that of charm and thought: she execrates beaten paths; she wants to create, and she creates.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

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

He execrates, detests, despises himself; and admires her more than ever.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

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

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

Henry Cabot Lodge, late Senator, honored in New England and execrated in the South, bearded and full of strange erudition, last week posthumously published a book, The Senate and The League of Nations.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Although the execrated name of Hojo was hers, the scathing curse on all who bore the name passed harmless over her.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

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

Little Caligaro was execrating last night's rain, which had made the ground heavy.

From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding

"You know not the horror with which they inspire me, any more than you can guess the personal reasons I have for avoiding and execrating them, and all who resemble them."

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue

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

It was terrible to see how like this young lad grew to the man he was execrating.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn