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curse
noun as in hateful, swearing remark
Strong matches
anathema, ban, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cussing, damning, denunciation, execration, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, oath, obloquy, profanation, sacrilege, swearing, vilification
Weak matches
cuss word, dirty name, dirty word, double whammy, four-letter word, malison, naughty words, no-no, objuration, swear word
noun as in misfortune wished upon someone
verb as in swear
Strongest match
Weak matches
be foul-mouthed, take name in vain, talk dirty, use bad language, utter profanity
Example Sentences
The country's proximity to Haiti is "both a blessing and a curse", he believes.
“Old sins have a long shadow,” his grandfather writes to memorialize a curse, and Cianfrance literalizes this in his cinematic approach.
“The more research I did, the more it seemed cursed,” she says.
Cardi B said that they went chest to chest and that she did curse at Ellis but that she never touched the guard, who was physically larger.
“But that was the curse of it not getting made — because no one else knew about it!”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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