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- curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
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find repugnant
She abhors cats
I loathe that man
How To Use execrate In A Sentence
- 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. Les Miserables
- 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. Chapter VII
- I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist who, from less honorable motives, clamors for protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
- Having taken prize money from the officialdom he execrated, Bernhard delights, retrospectively, in the consequences. Enfant Not So Terrible
- The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions.
- But it transformed the professor of comparative literature at Columbia into a very public intellectual, adored or execrated with equal intensity by many millions of readers.
- Clemency to the recently execrated terrorists marked the Convention's response to the Vendémiaire crisis, both in the build-up to the insurrection and in its aftermath.
- OK aunty Flo, but these people whom I have execrated are NOT old style right of centre liberals (like me and you.) If Greens Ruled The World...
- She's lived down to a lot of the smears that I used to execrate Republicans for using on her. Schneider: Obama makes gains with women