execrate
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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
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
But, stop, my dear sir, I would say to him; you ought not to execrate them all, because I had the misfortune of having fallen among a few american rogues.
From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph
We but smile at the one, we would learn to execrate the other.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
The orchestral poem of Pelléas et Mélisande I have yet to enjoy or execrate; there seems to be no middle term for Schoenberg's amazing art.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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