execrated

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You either execrated them and were on the side of history, or enjoyed them and missed the bus.

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

He was remembered indeed, as he desired to be, but only to be execrated; while the seventh wonder of the world lay prostrate through his crime.

From Considerations on Religion and Public Education by More, Hannah