malediction

Example Sentences

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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

A salvor who declines to donate their winnings to the poor no longer risks “the curse and malediction of our mother the holy church,” as the law was written in the 1100s.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2020

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

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2019

Freedom is rather the subject of the author’s malediction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 9, 2016

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

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