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

Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hs�an Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei.

From Time Magazine Archive

You either execrated them and were on the side of history, or enjoyed them and missed the bus.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The gigantic baths of Caracalla turned us aside once more, and we stopped for an hour in the shade of their romantic arches, admiring the works, while we execrated the character of their ferocious builder.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker