cursable

English

Etymology

From curse +‎ -able.

Adjective

cursable (comparative more cursable, superlative most cursable)

  1. Capable of or deserving of being cursed; damnable.
    • 1921, Ernest Ingersoll, Explorers Journal, page 14:
      Meanwhile Captain Bartlett spent much time and trouble, in the midst of cursable weather, in trying to get the ship further north, but failed, and so settled down in Charkbok Inlet to wait and work at his forthcoming Autobiography.
    • 2001, Jordan Jay Hillman, The Torah and Its God: A Humanist Inquiry, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 534:
      Deut. 27:15-26 then describes the "cursable" conduct of individual persons that will evoke God's curses. Following the recitation of each type of "cursable" conduct, "all the people" are commanded to say "Amen."
    • 2018 July 31, Mandy M. Roth, Don’t Stop Bewitching: A Happily Everlasting Series World Novel: (Bewitchingly Ever After Series Book 3), Raven Happy Hour:
      [He's] cursable. Can't drive worth a darn but he's super cursable. Everyone has to be good at something. Warrick is good at getting cursed and charming the ladies. He's real good at buying up property too.
    • 2022 October 11, Sardar Paramjit Singh, Do Good to Others, Amarjeet Singh Paramjit Publications:
      Those hands and feet are also cursable or disdainful which remain indulged in other worthless actions or deeds without performing the service.

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