execrated

Example Sentences

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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

With powerful brevity, Borges limns a decadent nation where language�and all that it implies of hope and beauty �is the execrated enemy.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 ...

From Time Magazine Archive

His memory was execrated by those over whom he had ruled.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)