execrate vs excoriate
Definitions
verb
- curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
- find repugnant
Examples
There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore.
The Cure are the personification of the not-quite and the not-yet: not quite execrated but never really respected; not punk veterans but not yet generic Goff.
For the part he had played, the details of which were practically all rumor and guesswork, quickly leaked out, and in consequence he became a much-execrated and well-hated man.
Definitions
verb
- express strong disapproval of
- tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
Examples
He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov.
It is completely illogical to assume that being ashamed and having your school "excoriate" you will be motivational in any way.
Thus for example ID is excoriated for not being scientific in the newer sense, particularly since it cannot specify and test the designer's mechanism for action.
