execration

Example Sentences

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And if they are remembered at all, it will be with execration and contempt.

From Washington Post

To howls of execration from the world’s media, his insistence has torpedoed efforts to update the treaty.

From The Guardian

“And the curtain dropped forever upon the lives of four of its actors. . . . The wretched criminals have been hurried into eternity, and tonight will be hidden in despised graves, loaded with the execrations of mankind.”

From Washington Post

“So long as there are Americans, his memory will be cherished with execration and loathing.”

From Salon

Shuler describes the tradition of the public execution sermon and the last words of the condemned, usually contrite and repentant but sometimes not, as some yelled execrations or protested their innocence.

From Washington Post