| 单词 | malediction |
| 释义 | malediction (once / 5407 pages) n “Darn you!” “Go bury your head in the sand.” “You ugly nincompoop!” Each of those nasty curses is a malediction (and, I’m sure, nothing you would ever say to another human being). A malediction is a curse. Not like the kind a witch puts on someone, but close. More like what the schoolyard bully says to hurt someone’s feelings. On purpose. Malediction has male in it, but it’s not a slur against men or boys. Mal comes from the Latin for "evil" and "diction," and as you may remember, has to do with what we say. So a malediction is an evil statement directed at someone else. Pretty nasty, if you ask me. WORD FAMILYmalediction: maledictions+/maledict: maledicting, malediction USAGE EXAMPLESTrump is at his desk, tweeting curses and maledictions at his enemies. Wall Street Journal(Nov 03, 2016) Freedom is rather the subject of the author’s malediction. Wall Street Journal(Sep 09, 2016) One man, Gary, drives around the parking lot “in slow circles . . . blasting his horn and shouting community-sustaining threats and maledictions.” The New Yorker(Mar 23, 2016) n the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) Syn|Hyper imprecation condemnation, curse, execration an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group |
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