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

Teng's resurrection would be something of a political miracle, since he has twice survived periods of official execration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of all the cataracts and cascades with sinister records on the Columbia this Dalles of the Dead has undoubtedly been the one to draw to itself the greatest share of execration.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)