Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shrewish; waspish; vixenish; ill-tempered: applied to women.
- Ill-tempered; crabbed; cantankerous; peevish; snarling: applied to men.
- Vicious; fierce; dangerous.
- Detestable; execrable: used as an expletive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
curse . - adjective obsolete Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Archaic spelling of
cursed . - verb Archaic spelling of
cursed .; Simple past tense and past participle ofcurse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
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Examples
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I do not think any of my people ever looked at their calling in this fashion, but Macready was a very honest man, and that and his "curst" temper (Shakespeare, you know) give me great sympathy for him.
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Thus, a strange kind of curst necessity Brings down the sterling temper of his soul.
The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author 1812
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She swung the sword at him, praying she could actually use the curst thing.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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Her curst husband actually had the nerve to laugh.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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She swung the sword at him, praying she could actually use the curst thing.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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Her curst husband actually had the nerve to laugh.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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But alas, we are at the far north end of NJ-and our younger daughter has the thrice curst SATs on Saturday.
Big, Broad, Flexible Religion Anne Johnson 2009
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Ah, woe for him! whose fortune was e'er so curst as his?
Heracles 2008
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Ah, woe for him! whose fortune was e'er so curst as his?
Heracles 2008
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Without the will of heaven none is blest, none curst, I do maintain; nor doth the same house for ever tread the path of bliss; for one kind of fortune follows hard upon another; one man it brings to naught from his high estate, another though of no account it crowns with happiness.
The Heracleidae 2008
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