as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
this deuced washing machine always gives me trouble
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Adjective
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Are the Ducks … drumroll please … cursed?—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
14 Jan. 2026 -
Notably, season 2 concludes with the Shibuya Incident, an event that left Tokyo in ruins and resulted in cursed spirits killing civilians across the city, according to Crunchyroll.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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More than anything, though, Jessie is someone who clearly just really freaking loves to crosscountry ski.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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My freaking customers are now fans.—
Ana Colón,
Glamour,
18 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Which is asking an awful, awful lot of your defense.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2026
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Those girls have grown up with the people saying the most awful things about their mother.—
Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This gives you a terrible, crushing headache.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Years later, a recluse with recurring nightmares, her terrible past resurfaces.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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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
Adjective
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The first revelation was apparently fine, but her mom blamed those darned permissive Jesuits at Holy Cross for the second.—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
13 Dec. 2025
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Within days, the magic of agricultural alchemy will turn it all into the best darned fertilizer since God invented the chicken.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Four long years, during which the relationship between the flashy, flamboyant player and the sometimes-stodgy organization that turned him into a Charlotte legend seemed to spoil, turning almost rotten at times.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Jan. 2026
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Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Deuced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deuced. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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