execration
Example Sentences
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And if they are remembered at all, it will be with execration and contempt.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
There’s a long, proud tradition in comedy of taking advantage of whatever stage and microphone you’ve been handed and doing whatever you can to ensure you’re greeted with howls of execration.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2019
“So long as there are Americans, his memory will be cherished with execration and loathing.”
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2014
At Barbados, the first stop, his rhapsody over scarlet poinsettias brought a hysterically savage execration from an Englishwoman returning to exile in Colombia.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the sentiment was one of detestation—denunciation of slavery, for example—both arms, thrown upward and fists clenched, swept through the air, and he expressed an execration that was truly sublime.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.
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Jane Eyre
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