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verb

execrate

to feel or express great loathing for

In a sentence

Six example sentences with execrate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Pamphlets of the 1790s execrate the tax collectors by name, filling whole columns with language no newspaper would print now.

    Politics

  • Fans execrate the third sequel so thoroughly that the studio quietly left it out of the anniversary box set.

    Movies

  • Home crowds execrate the official who called the final foul, booing loudly whenever the replay appears on the screen.

    Basketball

  • Reviewers execrated the novel when it appeared, and the same critics were praising it as a classic thirty years later.

    Literature

  • Vienna's critics execrated the new symphony as noise, yet the orchestra sold out every repeat performance that season.

    Music

  • Players execrate the new inventory system so loudly that the developers promised a rollback within the week.

    Gaming

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