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US
/ˈkɝ/
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[ UK /kˈɜː/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜː/ ]
NOUN
- an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
- a cowardly and despicable person
How To Use cur In A Sentence
- A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
- It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
- Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- In Bermuda, Sam's father took him on an excursion to a coral barrier.
- This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.