0 present participle of curse
1 to use a word or an expression that is not polite and shows that you are very angry:
2 to say magic words that are intended to bring bad luck to someone:
Things were going so badly - it was as if I'd been cursed.
During the initial consultation, he demonstrated hostility toward them, often cursing for no clear reason.
Another decried the protesters' ' uncouth behaviour ' and their ' spitting and cursing ' (p. 144).
The focus of the language socialization practice that will be examined here is cursing.
Two people roundly cursing each other in the street, or thumping each other?
But if not, it will only be experienced as a hateful thing that elicits cursing and further defiance.
However, the giant's cursing voice is cut short by the sailor.
Augustine says that this telling could not have been in the form of a commandment, else the cursing would have been obedient and praiseworthy.
Hostility began to grow during the summer of 1991, with foreign workers and asylum seekers facing constant cursing in the streets.
