as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
I detest that infernal machine
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This time, infernal matter oozed out of a 3,000-foot-long crack that emerged near one of the protective walls to the town’s north, which managed to deflect the lava.
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Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
To slow its infernal advance, engineers pumped seawater from the harbor toward the red-hot lava’s leading edge.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
Númenor’s last king heeds this infernal counsel and sails with a mighty fleet to those undying lands.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
Hedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
To slow its infernal advance, engineers pumped seawater from the harbor toward the red-hot lava’s leading edge.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
Númenor’s last king heeds this infernal counsel and sails with a mighty fleet to those undying lands.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
Hedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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“Infernal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infernal. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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