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imprecation

noun as in blasphemy

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Without waiting to catch breath after his heroic skirmish, he began uttering, over these detested feathers, the most horrible imprecations imaginable.

Her singing encompassed cathartic extremes: lullabies and imprecations, sighs and howls.

She hurled raspy imprecations in “Hurt Yourself” and let her voice break with tearful desperation and then find its own resolve in the hymnlike “Sandcastles.”

He then leads the Army in shouts of the imprecation, "Arise, oh God, and let your enemies be scattered!"

From Salon

In the history of American presidential debates, there never has been a spectacle of imprecations and interruptions like Tuesday night’s prize fight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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