as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
this deuced washing machine always gives me trouble
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Soon after, residents of Shuni began to sicken and die, giving rise to rumors of a cursed coffin.
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Created by Katie Dippold, Widow’s Bay is set in a fictional — and very much cursed — New England island town and centers around Tom, the town’s mayor.
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There’s gonna be some comedy at the beginning and then there’s gonna be freaking reggaeton!
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That itself should be a freaking movie.
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Messi shook off his awful spot kick to deliver another match-winning masterclass against Austria and become the competition’s all-time top scorer in the process.
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But the Windows handheld software experience on the Claw is just awful compared to the straightforwardness of SteamOS on the Steam Deck.
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The production quality was terrible.
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But in May of 1943, a terrible fire burned his studio to the ground.
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With more than a dozen varieties grown in and around SoCal, in 2026 alone, heads (of cabbage) will roll if Angelenos can’t get their fix of this vitamin-rich, potassium-laden, calcium-blasted antioxidant VIP in 2026.
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Each earbud is made from polished aluminum and housed in a pearl-blasted charging case made from natural aluminum.
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Heck, as recently as 2023 Cinderella took over the whole darned Final Four, with the Miami Hurricanes, FAU and San Diego State barging in.
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The first revelation was apparently fine, but her mom blamed those darned permissive Jesuits at Holy Cross for the second.
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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“Deuced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deuced. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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