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execrate

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To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. Baruch Spinoza

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. John Edward Redmond

I loathe that man Source: Internet

She abhors cats Source: Internet

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