imprecation

Example Sentences

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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

He grunted once or twice as his pipe went out, and then with a muttered imprecation threw it down, and, pulling the blanket over his head, began to snore.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram