execrate
verb (used with object)
to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
execrates
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present tense formof execrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Raoul of Montjoire execrates the black-frocked militia as much as I do myself.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
Well, you are, thank God, remote from this epoch and fond of things which it knows nothing about or execrates, and a work of that kind would take you still further away.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Virginia, and execrates Maryland, which, by-the-by, I provok'd them to; for, though I admire both Virginia and Maryland, I laugh'd at the former and prais'd the latter; ridicul'd their manner of speaking.
From American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 12. Second Series by John Jay Smith
Beatrice Patrick Campbell is especially an artist, and her talent is that of charm and thought: she execrates beaten paths; she wants to create, and she creates.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
His very style foams, rages, prays, entreats, adjures, weeps, screams, warns, and execrates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
