execrated
Example Sentences
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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
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
And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was expected to assume the functions of chief adviser, and keep the successor straight--was, in fact, to tighten the bonds about his master's limbs, for the behoof of the execrated family.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
