execrate

in a sentence

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.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

But my refusal now to join in his execration of Bilbo only validated what he really had discovered about my "ingrained" and "unregenerate" racism, ever since that night he had read the first part of my book.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

And the single-minded determination that had propelled him through twenty-five years of greengrocering in a famous ghetto of America would serve him a few last days, and through any of my meager execrations.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

But it was also a necessary ingredient for certain spells.... "An execration," I said.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire, 2011

Behind, the clamor continued—a medley of shrieks, groans, and execrations.†  (source) Lew Wallace, Ben Hur, 1880

At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately.  (source) Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845

Mary was execrated; Dick exonerated.†  (source) Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 1950

The ladies quickened their pace, with a wish to escape the crowd of constables and idlers that were approaching, some execrating, and some laughing at the exploit of the prisoners.†  (source) James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, 1823

Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

They had earned, in the words of the Louisville Courier Journal, "an eternity of execration."†  (source) John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1955

Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.†  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

And later is Worse, When men will not hate you Enough to defame or to execrate you, But pondering the qualities that you lacked Will only try to find the historical fact.†  (source) T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, 1935

She could not help seeing that Rhett, once the most execrated man in Atlanta, was now one of the most popular, for he had humbly recanted his Republican heresies and given his time and money and labor and thought to helping Georgia fight her way back.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936