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
Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.
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
Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated!"
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 Maurice Francis Egan
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