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 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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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Tribute List
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