execrate

Billy was hung amidst crowds of execrating spectators." (294)

He does however admit that the Umayyad conquerors referred to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as "The Dungheap," and that Abd al-Malik, an early Arab ruler of Jerusalem, decorated the outside of the Dome of the Rock with 800 feet of inscriptions execrating and mocking the divinity of Jesus.

Liberals, Voegeli explains, sometimes avoid trying to answer these sorts of questions by execrating as greedy racists those who ask them.

Do I feel comfortable at the sight of Western progressives execrating China?

He points out that previous biographers of Rockefeller have been preoccupied with either execrating him or attempting to vindicate him, as with Henry Demarest Lloyd and Ida Tarbell on the one hand, and Allan Nevins on the other.