Sample Sentences forexecrate (editor-reviewed)
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She execrated the dictator in every speech, calling him a monster and a disgrace to his people.execrated = expressed intense hatred for
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She grew up execrating the man who had abandoned their family, blaming him for every hardship.execrating = expressing intense hatred for
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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. (source)execrate = express hatred or curse
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I execrate these vampires who are sucking the lifeblood of the men who follow Robert Lee—these men who are making the very name of blockader a stench in the nostrils of all patriotic men. (source)execrate = loath or hate
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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)execrations = expression of hatred
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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)
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A howl of execration greeted this tale.† (source)
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He carried her in; I followed, grumbling execrations and vengeance.† (source)
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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)execrate = curse or express strong hatred or loathing for
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They are a race of robbers and murderers, and the Waziri name is execrated even by the neighboring Mahommedan tribes. (source)execrated = hated and cursed
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Both were bleeding and panting and execrating and struggling; but of course I knew them both directly.† (source)
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Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates.† (source)
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For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.† (source)
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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)
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At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately. (source)execrate = express strong hatred for
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In French she execrated them; her wild, confident rage filled the room, enveloped them until they shrank and wriggled from the garments of blame with which she invested them.† (source)
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