as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
I detest that infernal machine
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Recent Examples of infernal
This time, infernal matter oozed out of a 3,000-foot-long crack that emerged near one of the protective walls to the town’s north, which managed to deflect the lava.
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Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
To slow its infernal advance, engineers pumped seawater from the harbor toward the red-hot lava’s leading edge.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
Númenor’s last king heeds this infernal counsel and sails with a mighty fleet to those undying lands.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
Hedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
To slow its infernal advance, engineers pumped seawater from the harbor toward the red-hot lava’s leading edge.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
Númenor’s last king heeds this infernal counsel and sails with a mighty fleet to those undying lands.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
Hedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infernal
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There are not only graphic battles of intense color and design but also psychedelic trips, including a trippy one inside the cursed realm of warrior god Hoenir’s head.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2024
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The cursed man is William Hickman, a merchant who lived there with his family beginning in 1596.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile Kelly Oubre, who was terrible with the Warriors, has found success with Philadelphia.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Elsbeth and Kaya are suspicious of Roselyn, even after Valentina’s quick assessment — supported by the medical examiner — that Claude’s death was a terrible accident.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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For the evening, the stews break out their coral dresses instead of blacks which are pretty awful.Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Jean Dujardin, the French actor who won an Academy Award for that awful silent-movie spoof The Artist, is almost unrecognizable in On the Wandering Paths (Sur les chemins noirs).Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
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Taken together, the two drove home a damnable fact about America in 2022: That virulent pus coursing through the souls of Mississippi racists in 1955 still flows and has been reconstituted in the despicable figure of Donald J. Trump and the people who follow him.Keith L. Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 17 Nov. 2022
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Wordle two steps faster than the damnable robot.Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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Second, no one is offering to rebuild the blasted towns and villages of southern Lebanon when this is over, the way the oil-rich Gulf States did after the last major war with Israel, in 2006.Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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As in the video game, which starts characters off in a kind of blasted heath, the surroundings are visually competent but forgettable.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
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The others have tried to forget all about it, and have managed to put some distance between themselves and their accursed hometown.New York Times, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Infernal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infernal. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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