damned
IPA: dˈæmd
adjective
- Godforsaken.
- Variant of profane damn, used to express contempt, exasperation, etc. towards someone or something.
- Short for I'll be damned.
adverb
- (mildly vulgar) Very.
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Examples of "damned" in Sentences
- "By George!" said Marmaduke, admiringly, "he did that damned well -- _damned_ well.
- You know what they call the damned thing when women have it -- kleptomania, isn't it?
- "Now, that's what I call a damned good fellow: you don't often meet a chap like him," observed the master.
- I'm in damned good company too -- if you're looking for a masterclass in contemporary sf, this would be the place to start:
- And so Edison recalled the batteries he had trumpeted so loudly, went back to the lab, and set out to finish what he called his "damned problem."
- STENGEL: You know, I think either person who wins is going to have a-- you use the word damned -- I mean, is going to have a kind of cursed presidency.
- Like the "hare" (God forbid you call the damned thing a "rabbit" ... how many words rhyme with rabbit other than "dangnabbit"?) and the Eagle (with his friend ... the Beagle).
- His ideas were being debated on every radio chat show, his name damned and deified in the space of two callers, and he was having an affair with a beautiful, intelligent young woman who thought him a god and proudly undressed in front of him.
- MXX: I think I would have understood it more if they were half siblings or if thy never knew each other to start with ... but they knew already they were siblings ... of course, I guess the whole "you are damned from the start you evil rotten children" might been the "reason" for it to go so horribly wrong!?
- Bosch and Haller are teamed, not for the first time, in "The Reversal" (Little, Brown, 389 pages, $27.99), but with a twist: Mickey, the sardonically self-styled "defender of the damned," is tapped by the district attorney to be special independent prosecutor for the retrial of a child-murderer whose two-decades-old conviction has been thrown out as a result of recent DNA findings.
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