Sample Sentences formalediction (auto-selected)
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A blood malediction, a serious one.† (source)
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She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.† (source)
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The music was loud and empty, no one was doing anything at all, and it was being hurled at the crowd like a malediction in which not even those who hated most deeply any longer believed.† (source)
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Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.† (source)
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A classical face-to-face rape, however repellent, would at least permit the small gratification of know ing your assailant's features, of making him know that you knew, quite aside from the chance it presented, through a grimace or a hot level stare or even tears, of registering something: hatred, fright, malediction, disgust, possibly just derision.† (source)
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There, far away in the environs of a monastery, you might have seen a procession of angry monks making a barefoot march round their foundation—but they might have been walking against the sun, in malediction, because they had fallen out with the abbot.† (source)
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Five minutes afterwards the piano resounded to the touch of Mademoiselle d'Armilly's fingers, and Mademoiselle Danglars was singing Brabantio's malediction on Desdemona.† (source)
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They dug up the front yard for buried maledictions but found nothing.† (source)
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He invaded the turmoil and tumble of the down-town streets and learned to breathe maledictory defiance at the police who occasionally used to climb up, drag him from his perch and beat him.† (source)
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The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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And I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.† (source)
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I talked straight through the night, and he silently took my confessions, maledictions, as though he were some font of blessing at which I might leave a final belated tithe.† (source)
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The first part of this speech comprised his whole store of maledictory expression, and was uttered with a slight snarl easy to imagine.† (source)
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He caught up the empty pewter mug at his right and threw it at the clumsy lad with a malediction.† (source)
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For every man who tried to rub her head, there were three who muttered maledictions under their breath when she went by.† (source)
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Would you turn their distress into a malediction?† (source)
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