accursed
Americanadjective
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under or subject to a curse; doomed
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(prenominal) hateful; detestable; execrable
Other Word Forms
- accursedly adverb
- accursedness noun
Etymology
Origin of accursed
First recorded before 1000; Middle English acursed, Old English ācursod, past participle of ācursian; a- 3, curse
Example Sentences
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Somehow, Kyle Shanahan keeps meeting his accursed fortune with a spirit of inquiry.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022
It is “at once an accursed and a sacred place,” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Perhaps like those other accursed malefactors, you will refuse responsibility.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
To read the play, to follow Oedipus’ trajectory from first of men to accursed outcast, is to confront the paradox of humanity’s breathtaking majesty and inescapable frailty.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020
Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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