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单词 cursed
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Definition of cursed in English:

cursed

adjective kəːstˈkəːsɪd
dated, informal
  • attributive Used to express annoyance or irritation.

    his cursed tidy-mindedness
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Their cursed digital cameras flared out those blinding blue and green lights throughout the concert.
    • Because of my misfortune, I am hunted and condemned like a cursed criminal.
    • He finds out from Gandalf how dangerous the ring is and must make the trip to distant Rivendell to decide the fate of the cursed item.
    • She was now not quite a widow, which for a Bengali Hindu woman would be the most cursed state, but a woman who brings her family misfortune and death.
    • Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom.
    • I gave up all vices, unlike my cursed evil twin, who was often sighted at local pubs in the company of women of questionable virtue.
    • The cursed videotape is nothing compared to the original.
    • I live in that cursed keyboard world; it's so terribly lonely, and frustrating when your computer breaks.
    • The pace picks up as the crew from the cursed ship starts an eerie song and the celebrating sailors try to counter with a merry drinking song of their own.
    • For those who haven't seen the movie, the plot hinges around a cursed video which causes anyone who watches it to die within seven days.
    • Despite being an ode to the cursed Maple Leafs, this song succeeds by playing up the superstition inherent in hockey.
    • The instant their prince drew the cursed blade, its power reached out to them.
    • A shy New York artist fears she may have descended from a family of cursed women who turn into panthers when turned on.
    • If the sacred remnants of the ancients fall into this cursed fate, all but one will parish.
    • No one expects peace in this cursed paradise yet.
    • Hamlet said, as I recall, ‘O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right,’ or something like that.
    • And if his cursed power keeps me in the world of the living, then I shall bury my morals.
    • Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
    • But the attempt was marred by technical difficulties ranging from slow camera updates to not having the cursed thing plugged in.
    • For those unfamiliar with the design of the cursed building I inhabit, I live in the (rather shabbily) converted attic.
    Synonyms
    under a curse, damned, doomed, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed
    anathematized, excommunicated, excommunicate
    Scottish fey
    informal jinxed
    literary accursed

Derivatives

  • cursedly

  • adverb
    dated, informal
    • Gradually it became clear to me that I had landed outside the English lines, but cursedly near them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
      • Many an egret has cursedly cawed my name as it rose slowly over the little lake.
      • The ability to taste lived on, cursedly at first, and like a stroke victim who has suffered brain damage and must relearn the basics, Burl rediscovered the pleasures his tongue could hold.
      • I am swallowing the last bites of the eternity, while somewhere there in the empty darkness, empty form sobbing, the night is shrinking cursedly, night is preparing the attacks on my feelings,
      • Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake ‘stank cursedly and wouldn't lather,’ when he sought to use it ‘out of compliment to M. Lever.’
      • I suffered a couple of major setbacks in my mission to make some pairs of socks (cursedly inspired by the seemingly simple TechGuy socks).
      • The two of you will smoke imported cigarettes and indulge in endless, disaffected talks about the futility of life, the myth that is love and the wretched darkness of your over-educated, cursedly privileged souls.
      • Perhaps they demonstrate that these qualities are even encouraged by the cursedly interesting times in which we live.
      • For example, as Tad and Kate fall in love, it's splashed across the screen in cursedly peppy montages, scored to cursedly peppy chart-toppers, but there's a smirk and a witty jab in all of them.
      • The rest of the book remains cursedly metal-free, yet filled to the brim with confused laddies.
  • cursedness

  • noun
    dated, informal
    • But - even if you stand on every hilltop around, and even if you enlist all your powers of cursedness and evil, you know - and we know that you know - that we are the blessed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The cursedness of linearity seems always to loom large over games adapted from movies as developers seem constrained by the content of their filmic counterparts.
      • This fulness of cursedness is either particular or general.
      • The laws of infernal dynamics are an adage about the cursedness of the universe.
      • As a garden weed, it was generally left unpulled for fear offending the Aul Man or the fairies, hence, despite its cursedness, it was in every garden.
      • This also limits the cursedness of the mobile units purported to contain biological weapons, so often invoked as uninspectable.
      • He, however, was not suited to this new reality; his entire being was attuned to adapting to the cursedness of the material world, and he was unable to transcend this curse.
      • Of top priority, of course, is the gospel, which is a fuller answer to the cursedness than standing up to bullies or hugging a grieving mother.
      • Jeremiah proclaimed that trusting in man brings on a state of being of cursedness.
      • This movie is talking to us all about the cursedness of our modern social life, and more specifically, the cursedness of modern knowing.
      • Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.
      • O gluttony, full of all cursedness; O cause first of our confusion, Original of our damnation, Till Christ had bought us with his blood again!
      • That is part of the cursedness of the shotgun messenger's life - the loneliness of it.
      • And so because we are free to choose good or evil, we can say that God will allow us to seek blessedness or cursedness.
      • ‘Infertility for Christians is associated with cursedness, and having children, especially in the Old Testament, is considered a blessing,’ he said.
      • We have the power of ‘the eye ‘- that thing so many historical paintings are obsessed with - the ability to hold a man captive with a stare and then abandon him to cursedness.’
 
 

Definition of cursed in US English:

cursed

adjective
dated, informal
  • Used to express annoyance or irritation.

    he didn't whine about his cursed fate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • No one expects peace in this cursed paradise yet.
    • Hamlet said, as I recall, ‘O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right,’ or something like that.
    • Their cursed digital cameras flared out those blinding blue and green lights throughout the concert.
    • For those unfamiliar with the design of the cursed building I inhabit, I live in the (rather shabbily) converted attic.
    • I gave up all vices, unlike my cursed evil twin, who was often sighted at local pubs in the company of women of questionable virtue.
    • He finds out from Gandalf how dangerous the ring is and must make the trip to distant Rivendell to decide the fate of the cursed item.
    • The instant their prince drew the cursed blade, its power reached out to them.
    • But the attempt was marred by technical difficulties ranging from slow camera updates to not having the cursed thing plugged in.
    • Despite being an ode to the cursed Maple Leafs, this song succeeds by playing up the superstition inherent in hockey.
    • She was now not quite a widow, which for a Bengali Hindu woman would be the most cursed state, but a woman who brings her family misfortune and death.
    • A shy New York artist fears she may have descended from a family of cursed women who turn into panthers when turned on.
    • The pace picks up as the crew from the cursed ship starts an eerie song and the celebrating sailors try to counter with a merry drinking song of their own.
    • And if his cursed power keeps me in the world of the living, then I shall bury my morals.
    • Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom.
    • The cursed videotape is nothing compared to the original.
    • Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
    • I live in that cursed keyboard world; it's so terribly lonely, and frustrating when your computer breaks.
    • If the sacred remnants of the ancients fall into this cursed fate, all but one will parish.
    • Because of my misfortune, I am hunted and condemned like a cursed criminal.
    • For those who haven't seen the movie, the plot hinges around a cursed video which causes anyone who watches it to die within seven days.
    Synonyms
    under a curse, damned, doomed, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed
 
 
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