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Recent Examples of accursed Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter. Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019 The others have tried to forget all about it, and have managed to put some distance between themselves and their accursed hometown. New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019 Then from each black, accursed mouth The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on Earth, goodwill to men! Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2017 Earlier this year the accursed Queen Elizabeth of England imposed Protestantism on her wretched subjects, who are now deprived of the consolation of the sacraments. Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2017 And the Republican establishment, which loathes him, eggs them on, hoping to be rid of their mad, accursed priest. John Kass, Twin Cities, 1 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accursed
Adjective
  • Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Melding Williams’s hidden racial empathy to Nathanael West’s grotesque sociology (as in The Day of the Locust), the result, though well intended, is what’s called film maudit, a cursed film.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
  • As three people with remote connections to a house try to solve two brutal murders, the story becomes increasingly complicated and implausible, evolving into a fable about a cursed family.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • An infernal barrage of blazes continues to ravage the Los Angeles metropolitan region, where the death toll has now risen to at least 10 individuals.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The damaged reactor cores continue to glow with infernal heat, so plant employees must keep spraying them with water to cool them and prevent another meltdown.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2014
Adjective
  • Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
  • Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling, as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025

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“Accursed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accursed. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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