execration

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

There’s a long, proud tradition in comedy of taking advantage of whatever stage and microphone you’ve been handed and doing whatever you can to ensure you’re greeted with howls of execration.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2019

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

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2014

Thus, a figure of universal execration, he passed into history and literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

On such occasions he favors us with such doctrine as the following, which we confess we had the weakness to read with "sibylline execration" and extreme disgust.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret