execrate

Example Sentences

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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Bitterly did she execrate him, but it availed nothing.

From The Home Mission by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Ireland had reason to bless the movement towards liberty which came from France, and not less to execrate the excesses which strengthened the hands of liberty's opponents.

From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Why do we execrate in one set of men, what we laud so highly in another?

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

They were of no more account than the rest of the excited populace that knew Davis but to execrate him.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton