execration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=e=cra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

execration, n. [L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. exécration.].

•  The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.  [1913 Webster]

  "Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is execrated; a detested thing.  [1913 Webster]

  "Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse."

Syn. -- See Malediction.

THESAURUS

execration

Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, abuse, anathema, anti-Semitism, antipathy, assailing, assault, attack, aversion, ban, berating, bigotry, bitter words, blackening, blasphemy, commination, contumely, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, despitefulness, detestation, diatribe, dislike, evil eye, excommunication, fulmination, hard words, hate, hatred, hex, imprecation, invective, jawing, jeremiad, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, malison, malocchio, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, odium, onslaught, peeve, pet peeve, philippic, phobia, profanity, proscription, race hatred, racism, rating, repugnance, revilement, screed, spite, spitefulness, swearing, thundering, tirade, tongue-lashing, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vilification, vituperation, whammy, xenophobia

ROGET THESAURUS

execration

Malediction

N malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha, aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation, abuse, foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language, billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking, cursing, profane swearing, oath, foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility, threat, more bark than bite, invective, cursing, cursed, Int, woe to!, beshrew!, ruat coelum!, ill betide, woe betide, confusion seize!, damn!, damn it!, damn you!, damn you to hell!, go to hell!, go to blazes!, confound!, blast!, curse!, devil take!, hang!, out with!, a plague upon!, out upon!, aroynt!, honi soit!, parbleu!, delenda est Carthago.

Disapprobation

N disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.