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whammy

noun as in spell

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Who can forget in 2012 the double whammy of GOP Senate candidates comments about rape?

“The double whammy of those two set me on a course of thinking about issues I had never done before,” Sherwood told the Times.

For stores like Walmart, which sells groceries and other goods to the same customers, the food-stamp cut will be a double-whammy.

Why new cuts will be a double whammy for Bentonville—and anyone with a mutual fund.

This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.

This time they ain't none of them screwy Venusians to put the whammy on him, and he's doing okay.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whammy, such as: hex, abracadabra, charm, conjuration, curse, and hocus-pocus.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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