malediction

Example Sentences

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Mr. Badoglio then spent three months entreating his cemetery spirits to undo the malediction, until Mr. Zeffirelli was able to begin filming again.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

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 the malediction, it turned out, was mine, and it was retrospective.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2019

Is he suffering from an Alzheimeresque affliction, Makes him wallow in malevolent malediction, Spewing folderol and extrajudicial fiction?

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2018

Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien