execrated

They both execrated the place in very strong language, and gradually growled themselves out, and had nothing left to say.

Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.

As late as 1947, E. Merton Coulter of the University of Georgia, a former president of the Southern Historical Association, described black officeholding during Reconstruction as “the most spectacular and exotic development in government in the history of white civilization,” which was “the longest to be remembered, shuddered at, and execrated.”

And of the fact that the president has repeatedly execrated the invasion of Iraq that Bolton advocated.

Just as they will insist that no band, no matter how awful, could ever be as annoying as the Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull or Wings, people now in their dotage scoff at the notion that any newly released film could rival Showgirls, Xanadu and the almost universally execrated Heaven’s Gate.