Synonyms for whammy
ˈʰwæm i, ˈwæm iwham·my

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1. whammynoun

   a serious or devastating setback

   Synonyms:
   curse, jinx, hex

2. hex, jinx, curse, whammynoun

   an evil spell

   "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"

   Synonyms:
   scourge, expletive, condemnation, swearing, curse word, jinx, oath, execration, cuss, curse, swearword, nemesis, bane, hex, torment, jonah

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1. Steve Levy:

   The double whammy was the fact that at the same time, you had President Obama rolling out the red carpet for over 100,000 unaccompanied minors from Central and South America, many of us warned that this was a recipe for disaster – to have 15- or 16-year-old young men without parents to be resettled in this area. MS-13 became their family.

2. Michael Hirt:

   Alcoholic beverages do a double whammy on your sex life by lowering your testosterone and your sexual functioning.

3. Amy Arnsten:

   It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not.

4. Professor Herzog:

   This really reinforced the idea that while its bad to eat junk food, eating high-calorie foods under stress is a double whammy that drives obesity.

5. Robbie Koenig:

   Andy doesn't break and it's a double whammy because he gets broken straight away in the next game.