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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
Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the pounce, with hissing venom: "The right honorable gentleman's name was execrated!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Madame's ingratitude, my own easiness, the villagers' stupidity, I execrated all in turn; but most, perhaps, the inaction to which they condemned me.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
