execration

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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

Thus, a figure of universal execration, he passed into history and literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make an end of this topic, one may ask why Pitt, so fertile of invective himself, was not the subject of execration when he joined the Court.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose