Synonyms for whammy
ˈʰwæm i, ˈwæm iwham·my

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1. whammynoun

   a serious or devastating setback

   Synonyms:
   curse, jinx, hex

2. hex, jinx, curse, whammynoun

   an evil spell

   "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"

   Synonyms:
   scourge, expletive, condemnation, swearing, curse word, jinx, oath, execration, cuss, curse, swearword, nemesis, bane, hex, torment, jonah

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1. Sagar Lonial:

   In many ways it's a double whammy in terms of the tumor itself.

2. Ben Carson:

   It sounds really cool. You know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy.

3. Steve Levy:

   The double whammy was the fact that at the same time, you had President Obama rolling out the red carpet for over 100,000 unaccompanied minors from Central and South America, many of us warned that this was a recipe for disaster – to have 15- or 16-year-old young men without parents to be resettled in this area. MS-13 became their family.

4. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser:

   The thing about a spouse is that your spouse is typically your major source of support. If your spouse becomes your major source of stress, you don’t have a major source of support, and now it’s been replaced by a major source of stress, so you now have a double whammy.

5. Michael Hirt:

   Alcoholic beverages do a double whammy on your sex life by lowering your testosterone and your sexual functioning.