cursed

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1. Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

   Synonyms: accursed, cussed, bewitched, spellbound, accursed, condemned, star-crossed, sunk · Antonyms: blessed

2. obsoleteShrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).

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   Leonato By my troth neece thou wilt neuer get thee a huſband, if thou be ſo ſhrewd of thy tongue. / brother Infaith ſhees too curſt. / Beatrice Too curſt is more then curſt, I ſhall leſſen Gods ſending that way, for it is ſaide, God ſends a curſt cow ſhort hornes, but to a cow too curſt, he ſends none.

   1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

   Synonyms: harpyish, harpylike, shrewish, shrewlike

3. hateful; damnable; accursed

   That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!

   Synonyms: bloody, ever-loving, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping

4. colloquialFrightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.

   “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”

   2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York

   Synonyms: bizarre, cringe, macabre

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1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of curse

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1. datednot comparableslangDamnably; awfully.

   I intended handing you the crown, but when I got here and realized how cursed unpleasant it might be I funked it. I decided to send the damned thing back by post without a word.

   1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries