as in cursed
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
I detest that infernal machine
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Recent Examples of infernal
The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world.
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John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
At the end of the day, Jake can’t meditate for ten seconds without having to take a leak, and Katagiri can’t do it without the infernal hum of Tokyo, in all its movement and machinations and people living and breathing and fighting and dying, bringing him back to earth.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
Bees, wasps, and yellowjackets—with their infernal stings—are similarly creatures of the summer.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 24 May 2024
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.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
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Eponyms such as these provide a tantalizing backstory to our everyday language, but how many of us are aware of the eponymous character—the cursed figure of Tantalus—who lies behind the word?—
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The malevolence of this cursed banger will plague and stimulate clubs, dance floors, and Juneteenths for generations.—
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There have been plenty of terrible Oscar hosts over the years but this was a car crash that could easily have been avoided.—
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Secrets bob to the surface like drowning victims from the deep until nobody — not even the reader — can easily separate the terrible truth from even more terrible fictions.—
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Vanderbilt Profile Strengths: Competitive metrics, no bad losses, headliner wins vs. Kentucky and Tennessee. Profile Weaknesses: No key road/neutral wins, awful nonconference SOS.—
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My heart was already pounding from the awful climb, but there was a sudden thrill and exhilaration.—
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Drawing the line isn’t easy, and the damnable thing is that standards change from generation to generation.—
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Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling, as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.—
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The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.—
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When the moment of triumph finally arrived, with a blasted inside-in forehand to the postage stamp corner of the court, Djokovic, 37, crouched to his knees and immediately succumbed to the first set of tears.—
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Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.—
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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.—
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“Infernal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infernal. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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