Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So wicked and detestable as to deserve to be cursed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being under a curse; blasted by a curse; afflicted; vexed; tormented.
- Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable; wicked.
- Execrable; wretched: used as a hyperbolical expletive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Something that has some sort of
divine harm, malady, or othercurse . - adjective obsolete Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
curse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
- adjective deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
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Examples
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The reduced vocabulary of my childhood has given back a word, a term cursed for decades.
Yoani Sanchez: We Cubans Are Allowed to Say "Christmas" Again, But "Human Rights" Remains a Dirty Word Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The reduced vocabulary of my childhood has given back a word, a term cursed for decades.
Yoani Sanchez: We Cubans Are Allowed to Say "Christmas" Again, But "Human Rights" Remains a Dirty Word Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The reduced vocabulary of my childhood has given back a word, a term cursed for decades.
Yoani Sanchez: We Cubans Are Allowed to Say "Christmas" Again, But "Human Rights" Remains a Dirty Word Yoani Sanchez 2011
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I believe he would have pardoned any thing in me more readily than poetry; which he called a cursed, sneaking, puling, housekeeping employment, the bane of all true manhood.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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Indeed, I believe he would have pardoned anything in me more readily than poetry; which he called a cursed, sneaking, puling, housekeeping employment, the bane of all true manhood.
Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821
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Nowhere is the mention that Senator Levin "cursed" (as the headline said) or did any swearing.
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Or for the Redskins to be good enough that they're never again cursed with that booth.
Redskins-Rams, Best and Worst Dan Steinberg 2010
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If you're working like a normal person or staying in like a smart person today, it's safe to say it's worth some dollars to you to pick up gifts without getting your ribs broken or your name cursed by a hard-elbowed granny fierce.
Support American jobs this Thanksgiving weekend Rachel Manteuffel 2010
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‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you;
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you;
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“Cursed,” for instance, is an Internet vibe that signifies “increasingly generalized feelings of anxiety and malaise,” as Jia Tolentino has written, evoked by disquieting images of things where they don’t belong—say, a Chuck E. Cheese automaton left decaying in a dump, gracefully “vibing” despite its circumstances.
TikTok and the Vibes Revival Condé Nast 2021
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