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as in curse
a prayer that harm will come to someone
upon discovering that someone had stolen his golf bag, he let loose a volley of execrations
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as in hatred
a very strong dislike
a cowardly betrayal that earned him the execration of all who had remained loyal to the cause
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as in enemy
something or someone that is hated
denounced as an abomination before God and man, the heretic would forever be an execration even amongst his own people
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Recent Examples of execration
Their execration of the actions of Israel's government and security forces will not bring it any faster.
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Oded Naaman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
The Democrats’ howls of execration are perfectly understandable.
—Mario Loyola, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
Oded Naaman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
The Democrats’ howls of execration are perfectly understandable.
—Mario Loyola, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for execration
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Regardless of whether one sees it as a triumph or a curse, there is no reason to expect that low fertility will be reversed in any major way.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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Just one episode after breaking her family’s curse, Alice lies dead on the ground, and the witches—and especially Teen—are not happy.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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As an intimacy grows between Cassie and Bryan, Berryman again dances with shadows of Blanche and Stanley, but with all the hatred removed, the poisons of class and time and gender drained away.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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The hatred isn’t just coming from anonymous fringe posters either.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2024
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Loos uses a specific enemy, the Aeshi Nero, as a prime example of what the team is going for.Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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The cabdriver—a scrawny older man—drives rapidly and erratically, cutting off other vehicles, muttering imprecations in an unfamiliar language under his breath, swerving in and out of lanes, blowing his horn to force laggard drivers to let him by.Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
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Dimly lit, the dancers enact a ritual, flailing their arms in imprecation, grabbing an outstretched flexed foot, bowing in subjugation but also drawing strength from the ground, from their roots.Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
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One of the most memorable chapters epitomizes her detestation for the ultra-wealthy and pompous intellectuals who rushed to rationalize her work.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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Media coverage oscillated wildly between sycophantic applause and puritanical scrutiny - celebrities made to traipse an ephemeral, razor thin line between public adoration and detestation.Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 4 Aug. 2023
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Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Without faith, youth is open more to destructive secular influences similar to fatherless children being open to the maledictions of gangs rather than the counsels found in a loving and caring and attentive two-parent home.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024
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The ambivalence of André and his parents was culturally unexceptional, but Simone’s abhorrence wasn’t.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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To assume that liberalism is the only system that can justify or explain an abhorrence of bigotry is to ignore a wealth of moral traditions that are at least equally formative.Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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The results point to Asian Americans’ sensitivity to the issue of crime and safety due to the uptick of anti-Asian hate during the height of the pandemic that many feel went unaddressed, experts say.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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He’s finally painted the town in the colors of his mother’s desperate dreams, but there will be no verbal acknowledgment of pride to drown out her final words of hate.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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“Execration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/execration. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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