Synonyms for cursing
curs·ing

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1. cursing

   In the highest sense, as in a court of justice, "an oath is a reverent appeal to God in corroboration of what one says," Abbott Law Dict.; an affidavit is a sworn statement made in writing in the presence of a competent officer; an adjuration is a solemn appeal to a person in the name of God to speak the truth. An oath is made to man in the name of God; a vow, to God without the intervention, often without the knowledge, of man. In the lower sense, an oath may be mere blasphemy or profane swearing. Anathema, curse, execration, and imprecation are modes of invoking vengeance or retribution from a superhuman power upon the person against whom they are uttered. Anathema is a solemn ecclesiastical condemnation of a person or of a proposition. Curse may be just and authoritative; as, the curse of God; or, it may be wanton and powerless: "so the curse causeless shall not come," Prov. xxvi, 2. Execration expresses most of personal bitterness and hatred; imprecation refers especially to the coming of the desired evil upon the person against whom it is uttered. Malediction is a general wish of evil, a less usual but very expressive word. Compare TESTIMONY.

   Synonyms:
   adjuration, affidavit, anathema, ban, blaspheming, blasphemy, curse, denunciation, execration, imprecation, malediction, oath, profane swearing, profanity, reprobation, swearing, sworn statement, vow

   Antonyms:
   benediction, benison, blessing

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1. List of paraphrases for "cursing":

   curse

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1. Frank McCourt:

   Teacher my arse. I'd be better off on the docks and the warehouses, lifting, hauling, cursing, eating hero sandwiches, drinking beer, chasing waterfront floozies. At least I'd be with my own kind, my own class of people, not getting above meself, acushla.

2. Michael Landrio:

   You know who the f— I am? then he started cursing at me for no reason and said, ‘I am going to ruin your lives!’ I said, ‘F— you!’ Then he yanks open their car door and yells, ‘I’m going to punch you in the nose’ and he came after me and had his hands in my face.

3. School Board Chairman Frank Barbieri:

   Barbieri approached officers twice after the meeting and started yelling and cursing at them. “After all I’ve F****** done for you, you F****** screw me like this. If any of you want to F****** go, just say so, and I’ll F******make it happen.”

4. Greg Allen/Invision/AP:

   The people that I was always drawn to -- the consensus builders and the people who could reach across the aisle, the stories of Tip ONeill and [Ronald]Reagan battling and cursing each other and then going and having a whiskey and cutting a deal in the cloakrooms-- that just doesnt exist anymore.

5. Edgar Watson Howe:

   Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.