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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

De Clavering, who observed them both, gave a humorous dissertation on the powers of sympathy, and execrated its effects.

From Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 by Bonhote, Elizabeth