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
Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And yet, the "mouse" managed to make himself an execrated writer in Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He was expected to assume the functions of chief adviser, and keep the successor straight--was, in fact, to tighten the bonds about his master's limbs, for the behoof of the execrated family.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield