malediction
Example Sentences
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As horror metaphors go, this malediction is one we know all too well.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Despite this Sisyphean malediction, with each call for new proposals, the community still tries to push its boulder back to the mountaintop.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2021
But her writing, once you acclimate to its gargoyle extravagance, has the power of malediction.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
But the malediction, it turned out, was mine, and it was retrospective.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2019
Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing malediction
You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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King Lear
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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Tribute List
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