execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
execrated
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past participleof execrate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof execrate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
execrateverb (used with object)to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
Example Sentences
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This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2016
Toleration Sir: I got as great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine.
From Time Magazine Archive
She no longer remembered how, within the hour, she had execrated this man who now stood before her.
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Marvin Hill Dana
