cursed
adjective
, ˈkərst
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Synonyms
accursed (or accurst), blasted, confounded, cotton-picking, cussed, damnable, dang, danged, darn (also durn), darned (also durned), deuced, doggone (or doggoned), freaking, goddamned (or goddamn), infernal
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All of my friends ignored my request for comment on the Mountain Dew turkey, because some things are apparently too cursed to even give thought. — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, "Forget the Hot Cheetos, Here's a Recipe for Glitter-Covered Turkey," 20 Nov. 2018 And then there are even more fringe characters butting into the action, including cursed snake-woman Nagini (Claudia Kim) and French-African wizard Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam), who’s attempting to right an old family wrong. — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, "Even for the Harry Potter hardcore, Crimes of Grindelwald is one convoluted movie," 8 Nov. 2018 At first, his relationship with this national championship didn’t seem cursed. — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, "After a 77 on Thursday, Mickelson's U.S. Open Dream Is One Step Closer to Ending," 14 June 2018 In fact, everything about his career was starting to seem cursed. — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, "Russian Soccer’s Foreign Agent," 24 June 2018 Guttenberg co-stars in Chasing the Blues -- a comedy-drama about the search for a rare but cursed blues record -- which will screen at the festival. — Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, "Eric Stoltz’s Comedy 'Class Rank' to Open Sarasota Film Fest," 16 Mar. 2018 In the play—whose title, Géhenne, refers to a cursed place for sinners mentioned in the Old Testament, the Talmud and the Quran—a jihadist fighter is condemned to hell for killing Jews. — Time, "A Tale of Three Jihadists Puts the Fight Against Extremism Onstage," 14 June 2018 By contrast, García Márquez’s magical realist epic, which follows seven generations of the cursed Buendía clan through Colombian history, reveals more of its sly wit with each rereading. — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, "Books Your Teenager Is Reading That You Should Too," 8 May 2018 The Ring, a story of elves, gods, dragons and a cursed ring, draws on many of the same Germanic sources as Tolkien’s work and seems especially to resonate with contemporary audiences. — Patrick Neas, kansascity, "KC Symphony takes on a user-friendly adaptation of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle | The Kansas City Star," 24 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cursed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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