Sample sentences for MALEDICTION

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Definition

the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)

Her malediction of all bureaucracy.

malediction = the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)

And I left him, muttering maledictions against his evil angel.
Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
said Suzanne, giving a tone of prophetic malediction to the words.
de Balzac, Honore -- An Old Maid
menaces and maledictions against king and nobles
Shakespeare, William -- King Lear
menaces and maledictions against king and nobles
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

maledictions = curses or insults

And I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
He searched about in his mind for an adequate malediction for the indefinite cause, the thing upon which men turn the words of final blame.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
For every man who tried to rub her head, there were three who muttered maledictions under their breath when she went by.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
He caught up the empty pewter mug at his right and threw it at the clumsy lad with a malediction.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
As they passed out of the gate, the captain turned back, and pronounced a malediction on the house.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The first part of this speech comprised his whole store of maledictory expression, and was uttered with a slight snarl easy to imagine.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
He had been taken unawares—and he whispered to himself a malediction upon the waters and the firmament, upon the ship, upon the men.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
Treebeard rumbled for a moment, as if he were pronouncing some deep, subterranean Entish malediction.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
All those benedictions will fall back before they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
They dug up the front yard for buried maledictions but found nothing.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
If only my malediction is needed for that, I bestow it upon him! and his cathedral, and his mills!
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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!
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Away, run, haste, speed! lest the fire of my wrath burn itself out with delay, and the righteous vengeance that I hope for melt away in menaces and maledictions.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

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