Words similar to superstition
Example sentences for: superstition
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Such was the incredible cutting power of the Japanese sword — embellished perhaps a bit by Japanese superstition.
Announcing the ban Friday, the official China Daily said the sect had engaged in illegal activities: advocating superstition and spreading fallacies, hoodwinking people, inciting and creating disturbances, and jeopardizing social stability.
The often important factor of taboo seems not to operate here too conspicuously, although the superstition of the evil eye is often a potent consideration.
Margaret Nicholson, in her 1957 book, A Dictionary of American-English Usage (based on Fowler), pointed out that Gotten still holds its ground in American English, and she adds that there is a popular superstition that got is less refined than gotten .
We meet the young hit men who guarded the kidnap victims, and odors of fatalism, superstition, and barbarism waft upward from the page, in an unmistakable indication that we are in the presence of the grimmest poverty.