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

He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

There was a time, before this, when the name of our country, formerly so beloved and revered, was execrated among the Norwegians.

From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis