VERB
  1. curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
  2. find repugnant
    She abhors cats
    I loathe that man
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How To Use execrate In A Sentence

  • 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). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • 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. Nineteen Eighty-four
  • 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. The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914
  • The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn. A Commentary on St. Paul���s Epistle to the Galatians
  • There, Alexander is to be execrated because he conquered foreign peoples and overthrew an ancient empire.
  • As for Lady Afy, he execrated the greenhornism which had made him feign a passion, and then get caught where he meant to capture. The Young Duke
  • George is certainly mocked, but he is not execrated as a vile foreigner and un-British despot, as he had been by satirists and cartoonists in the 1760s and 1770s, when he was widely despised.
  • Just because he remained so steadfast in an execrated cause, entry into the acceptance world seems to have acquired all the more value.
  • I found that I didn't much miss Ireland as such, and in fact in many ways I execrated it.
  • The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn. A Commentary on St. Paul���s Epistle to the Galatians
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