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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

And just as I reverence this, do I execrate, with all my heart's indignation, a corrupt judicature.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

"I would execrate it were it a Stradivarius," said he, his mouth full of sop.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke

"I say again: "'Mon ami, do not execrate your own image.'

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

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 Lydia Maria Francis Child

Well, you are, thank God, remote from this epoch and fond of things which it knows nothing about or execrates, and a work of that kind would take you still further away.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

How one loves Canova the man, and how one execrates Canova the artist!

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

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

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

From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper

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

Henry Cabot Lodge, late Senator, honored in New England and execrated in the South, bearded and full of strange erudition, last week posthumously published a book, The Senate and The League of Nations.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated!"

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Readers of 'Jane Eyre' became indignant, and the Cowan Bridge School was execrated, denounced, and condemned by the public, to the utter distress and pain of its founder and patron.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland

The very men whose own brethren had perished in France were not hearty or unanimous in execrating the deed.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

I paced from post to post, execrating the sluggish march of time.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

I walked on, vowing that I would not turn toward home until my faculties were restored; and execrating my folly in permitting the enslavement!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

Although some blamed the young officer for his rashness, and others held Lord Raglan directly responsible for his loss, all agreed in execrating the vindictive cruelty of the uncompromising foe.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

And with this poor assurance the dwarf had been obliged to content himself—not merrily, 'tis true, but with much inward disquietude, secretly execrating his monarch for this revival of ancient and barbarous practices.

From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham