Sentences with curse
curse
C c - I cursed and hobbled to my feet. [VERB]
- He shot her an angry look and a curse.
- The resource curse is usually found in developing countries.
- The very same curse that causes numerous businesses to fail each year?
- Grandma protested, but he cursed her and rudely pushed her aside. [VERB noun]
- So we set off again, cursing the delay, towards the west. [VERB noun]
- A curse line can be formed out between a parent and a child if that parent has engaged and crossed over.
- We all say that people change over time, we crib about it, curse our luck and curse the associated people.
- Maybe there is a curse on my family. [+ on/upon]
- Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy. [+ of]
- SYNONYMY NOTE: curse is the general word for calling down evil or injury on someone or something; , damn carries the same general meaning but, in strict usage, implies the use of the word “damn” in the curse [he damned his enemies = he said, “Damn my enemies!”]; execrate suggests cursing prompted by great anger or abhorrence; , imprecate suggests the calling down of calamity on someone, esp. from a desire for revenge; , anathematize strictly refers to the formal utterance of solemn condemnation by ecclesiastical authority, but in general use it is equivalent to , imprecate
- To be under a curse
- Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.