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execration
noun as in hating
Example Sentences
George III wasn't personally a slave owner, and a previously revealed essay by him, which drew on work by French writer Charles de Montesquieu, makes a strong moral case against the slave trade, describing it as an "execration".
And if they are remembered at all, it will be with execration and contempt.
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.
To howls of execration from the world’s media, his insistence has torpedoed efforts to update the treaty.
Loathing, hate, detestation, dislike, distaste, abhorrence, abomination, execration, resentment, aversion, hostility, ill will, ill feeling, bad feeling, enmity, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, animus, revulsion, disgust, contempt, repugnance, odium, rancour, disrelish – 27 synonyms for hatred, none of which we’re really meant to feel in real life, all of which mean nothing relative to Rangers v Celtic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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