execrate vs excoriate
Definitions
verb
- curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
- find repugnant
Examples
My awful punishment makes my name execrated everywhere, as if I must have been superlatively bad to have earned it. aforetime ... tabret -- as David was honored (1Sa 18: 6).
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.
The havoc wrought by German shells in French and Belgian churches and cathedrals stands recorded in countless photographs and other illustrations, to form a permanent Indictment of Germany's methods of warfare that will make her name execrated by posterity.
Definitions
verb
- express strong disapproval of
- tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
Examples
excoriate" the UN's peacekeeping mission in Congo.
Speaking to reporters after McGinn’s press briefing, council president Richard Conlin excoriated the mayor for “grandstanding” on the tunnel and said he believed the council would vote again to uphold their agreement.
A much-experienced newspaper colleague excoriated me as grossly unfair, if not libellous.
