The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult):
— He suffered the imprecations of the mob.

synonym: malediction.

Roget 765: request, requisition; claim etc. (demand) 741; petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.    motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.    orison etc. (worship) 990; incantation etc. (spell) 993.    mendicancy; asking, begging etc. v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration^†, imploration^†, obsecration^†, obtestation^†, invocation, interpellation.    ... show more

Roget 908: malediction, malison^†, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination^†, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha^†; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.    abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing etc. v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility.    threat etc. 909; more bark than bite; invective etc. (disapprobation) 932.    ... show more

Dutch: vervloeking

A slanderous accusation.