John Sergeant Wise

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

American Author

Munshi Premchand

As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life's ultimate goal.

Indian Writer

Daniel Boone

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

American Explorer

Virgil

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Roman Poet

William Butler Yeats

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

Irish Poet

Lord George Gordon

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

British Politician

Christopher Marlowe

English Dramatist

The word 'accursed' adds a historical or old-fashioned tone to your language.

Archaic Tone

'Accursed' is often used in literature to heighten drama or tragedy.

Literary Dramatic

Using 'accursed' implies that the subject is being actively avoided or shunned.

Avoidance Implied

Conveys a casual level of frustration or annoyance in modern language.

Casual Displeasure

Often used to exaggerate feelings towards an inanimate object or situation.

Expressive Exaggeration

More commonly used in informal speech or writing to express frustration.

Colloquial Usage

 Or the blind, idiot god Azathoth, whose destructive impulses are stalled only by the “maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.” These beings exist beyond our conceptions of reality, their true forms as inscrutable as their motives.

Accursed

Archaic Tone

Literary Dramatic

Avoidance Implied

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