execrated

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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

And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Weyman, Stanley John