imprecation
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One of them is the journalistic imprecation tediously if correctly invoked by New Yorker editor David Remnick in a recent column: Don’t get ahead of the reporting.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2017
As the second half went on, the cries gave way to groans of dissatisfaction, and, eventually, shrieks of imprecation.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012
Sendak’s celebrated book Where the Wild Things Are takes its inspiration from childish disobedience and the imprecation that Yiddish-speaking parents hurled at obstreperous kids: wilde chaia or “wild pig.”
From Time • May 9, 2012
It takes a single imprecation to launch the curse of Greer, and once it is launched nothing will stop it.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2010
Old Man Stiles—his wife called him Joe, but to the entire countryside he was just "Old Man Stiles"—reached for his rifle with a muttered imprecation about "Rev'nue officers who never let a body be."
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson
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