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curses

/ ˈkɜːsɪz /

interjection

Who talks about sports “curses” as much as the fans who stubbornly remain fans in the face of such curses?

Children, even when they are difficult, deserve not to be seen as curses or blights or punishments.

Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

Either fondly or with curses, it is a time to look back at a year grown familiar to us now.

Many minors report that curses, threats, and sometimes even beatings are customary during this experience.

But all of this is in contradiction to the curses of Jahveh on the serpent, and on those to whom the serpent brought wisdom.

He heard men speak his name in tones of kindness, whose lips on the morrow would deal out curses.

Curses light upon your head, and black death upon your heart, you imp!

The men of his company, roaring curses at the Frenchmen, prepare to receive and repel a thundering charge of French cuirassiers.

He also invokes blessing on those who should preserve and respect his monument, and curses those who should injure or remove it.

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