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

Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hs�an Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei.

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

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

This surrender caused G�rgey's name to be execrated in Hungary, and by all who sympathized with the Hungarian cause throughout the world.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard