curseful

comparative more curseful · superlative most curseful

1. archaichorrendous, horrific

   Don't name the curseful place.

   1910, Josephine Preston Peabody, The Piper

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   They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.

   1885, Tommaso Campanella, “City of the Sun”, in R. W. Halliday, transl., Ideal Commonwealths, London: George Routledge and Sons