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. Patsy Nakell:

   This is like a double whammy in many ways, when you don't have anything to begin with, your ability to stretch and be flexible is very limited.

2. Michael Hirt:

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

3. Stefan Worrall:

   We're seeing a double whammy of yen strength combined with Japan Inc's tendency to give very conservative guidance, so you have to acknowledge some uncertainty over how much capex will actually be impacted by the stronger yen because we're unsure just how much exaggeration we're seeing in dim earnings forecasts.

4. 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.

5. Jane Dueker:

   Not only is she declining to prosecute a record number of cases that have already been filed, she is just filing less cases, so that’s a double whammy.