Roget's Thesaurus

#908. Malediction

Nouns

malediction, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation. abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing etc. v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility. threat etc. 909; more bark than bite; invective etc. (disapprobation) 932.

Verbs

curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction. execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize etc. (censure) 932; bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten etc. 909. curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.

Adjectives

cursing, cursed etc. v..

Interjections

woe to!, beshrew!, ruat coelum! [Lat.], ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize!, damn!, damn it!, damn you!, damn you to hell!, go to hell!, go to blazes!, confound!, blast!, curse!, devil take!, hang!, out with!, a plague upon!, out upon!, aroynt! , honi soit! [Fr.], parbleu! [Fr.]

Phrases

delenda est Carthago [Lat.].