cursed
/ˈkɝsɪd/ adjective B2- Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
- hateful; damnable; accursed · That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
- Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
Comparative curseder · Superlative cursedest
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These infernal Scowrers, this cursed vindictive nest of criminals—”
‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’ So the drunken squires cursed the shepherd and rode onward.
One day when I cursed Providence for making me so wicked, and ordaining me to such a fate, my adopted father said to me, ‘Do not blaspheme, unhappy child, the crime is that of your father, not yours,—of your father, who consigned you to hell if you died, and to misery if a miracle preserved you alive.’ After that I ceased to blaspheme, but I cursed my father.
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