maledictionin a sentence
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They dug up the front yard for buried maledictions but found nothing.† (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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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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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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He telleth it always in the third person, making believe he is too modest to glorify himself—maledictions light upon him, misfortune be his dole!† (source)
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Being much less cool-headed than Mr. Fogg, he was much more restless, counting and recounting the days passed over, uttering maledictions when the train stopped, and accusing it of sluggishness, and mentally blaming Mr. Fogg for not having bribed the engineer.† (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 long, barbed steel goblets were lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss.† (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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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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A blood malediction, a serious one.† (source)
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"Maledictions!" said the captain, and fell.† (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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On George's intercourse with Amelia he put an instant veto—menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens.† (source)
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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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The indigestion seemed betokened in an occasional nervous testiness and grinning irritability, causing the teeth to audibly grind together over mistakes committed in copying; unnecessary maledictions, hissed, rather than spoken, in the heat of business; and especially by a continual discontent with the height of the table where he worked.† (source)
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