execrated
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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
He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Toleration Sir: I got as great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ...
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There was a time, before this, when the name of our country, formerly so beloved and revered, was execrated among the Norwegians.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan