execrate

Example Sentences

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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Then there would be one continual cheering all along as they passed, and all the women would cry, and the men would execrate Napoleon.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

Presently the fish, not being properly banked, would have broken the gut and torn themselves from the hook, leaving me in bewilderment and shame, to execrate my ain stupid indecision.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

All they can do, then, is to conceal these cruelties from the eyes of the people who already execrate him for his many roughnesses and the undoubted shadow under which he lives.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

Oh, well," I said, controlling myself, and realising that she had some excuse to execrate Donald's memory, "let's not discuss Don now.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)