Within the last two generations, the disease has gone from being an occasional infirmity to a dreadful curse.
To be the party of "fiscal responsibility" is to bear a dreadful curse at the polling booth.
Prince StrongHeart - originally a human, but was turned into a dog as a result of a dreadful curse.
And in 1859 he said "How long is that race to endure the dreadful curse that is upon them?
Perhaps we-the Brotherhood-had cast the dreadful curse upon the young man.
"That's the most dreadful curse in our language."
Enraged, the cardinal puts a dreadful curse on the thief.
Wallie was waiting to hear of some dreadful curse or other such stories usually had a curse or two in them.
Have you no brain whereby you may recognize the will which has through six long centuries fulfilled the dreadful curse upon the house?
When the leaders firmly refused this demand, he said he would put a dreadful curse on the League and on our expedition.