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execration

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Madoff looked strangely content in the back of the car as he was driven away to a future of unremitting execration.

Many of the Girondists in the Assembly gave vehement but unavailing utterance to their execration of the massacres.

A howl of execration burst forth, but it was stayed by the entrance of two people from the private portion of the palace.

A violent reaction took place on the accession of Decius, whose name became an object of execration to mankind.

The Greek word has become blended with the Hebrew phrase, and the compound used as a formula of execration.

In a succession of libels Spencer Cowper was held up to the execration of the public.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to execration, such as: abhorrence, abomination, anathema, blasphemy, condemnation, and contempt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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