The word "malediction" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a curse or a harsh, negative statement. For example, "The angry witch delivered a malediction against the poor village."
It was followed by two dramas that dealt with contemporary topics but were structured like classical Greek tragedies, Klątwa (1899; "The Malediction") and Sędziowie (1907; "The Judges").
And before you start assembling your rappelling gear in preparation for a midnight heist, know that the malediction placed on these beauties makes the Hope Diamond look like a lucky charm.
In Vedic times, sin (enas) or evil (papman) was associated with illness, enmity, distress, or malediction; it was conceived of as a sort of pollution that could be neutralized by ritual or other devices.
As Anthony Lane pointed out in these pages, Apatow's subject is not so much sex as age, and age in his movies is a malediction.
With increasing insistence since the nineteen-thirties, that propaganda has centered on the phrase "socialized medicine," which the A.M.A. has never actually defined but which has been endlessly repeated as what Carter calls a "patriotic malediction".
It was less a speech than a sermon, as Reagan himself understood — a malediction against the evils of income taxes, federal spending, central planning, godless Communism, and government controls on commerce and freedom.
(In Hollywood, all maledictions take effect; faith, of any kind, must be rewarded).
Verdi's beloved maledictions, vendettas, and forces of destiny actually add plausibility rather than take it away; they make the violent accents of operatic singing seem like a natural reaction under the circumstances.
Trinkets for warding off the evil eye were on sale in many of the stalls in the bazaar — staring glass eyes, carved wooden talismans, and a sheep-horn symbol that Merdan said was effective against maledictions.
The spurned fans sent out maledictions like some early version of a drone aircraft, to circle the globe until they found the perpetrators who took our team.
Realizing they had made it, the slaves on board, according to the captain of the Union ship Onward, flocked to the deck, "some dancing, some singing, whistling, jumping; and others stood looking toward Fort Sumter, and muttering all sorts of maledictions against it".
