execrate

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

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Then he began to execrate the authors of his misfortune.

From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding

The human masses execrate the scourge, but accept it passively.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

I am fully informed, my precious sister, of your terrible situation; I will not stop now to execrate your infernal pursuer, though he will not lose my execrations by the delay!

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

He welcomes any opportunity for war, but execrates militarism.

From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

She execrates indeed     The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire,     But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

The gentix ber contradicts, jeers at, and execrates his sovereign and his fellows with the utmost freedom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Virginia, and execrates Maryland, which, by-the-by, I provok'd them to; for, though I admire both Virginia and Maryland, I laugh'd at the former and prais'd the latter; ridicul'd their manner of speaking.

From American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 12. Second Series by John Jay Smith

Everybody goes home in a sentimental glow and the native born working-man reads his Sydney Bulletin over a long-sleever and execrates the name of the country which bore his father and mother.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray

This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2016

The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house.

From Time Magazine Archive

He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Hain't hit outdacious," execrated Mrs. Doggett, "him been here ever' sence the flood might' night', and a talkin' that away?"

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

They returned to their homes, execrating the war as waged in behalf of the arch-enemy of God and man, as the result of a pettifogging bit of trickery on the part of Napoleon.

From The Wars Between England and America by T. C. Smith

And then talk went on, stiffly, each of its contribuents execrating its stiffness, but seeing no way to relaxation.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

The Honveds began execrating the name of a colonel who had often come to our soirées.

From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai

It was terrible to see how like this young lad grew to the man he was execrating.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn

His other patient was no doubt already execrating him for not coming to time, so he drove off briskly; at least, so his pony flattered himself.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan