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damned
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[ adjective ] expletives used informally as intensifiers
Examples "he's a blasted idiot" "it's a blamed shame" "not a blessed dime" "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing" "he's a damn fool" "an infernal nuisance" Used in print (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)Docherty was damned if he would make a fool of himself again the way he had earlier over the laundry_truck . (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)Fight with Sam_Schaeffer , fight with the whole damned Bureau . But I 'm not one damned bit sorry I went_out to question the people I know in the places they hang_around , and '' - If the acting captain wanted his acting lieutenant to sit on his ass around the station all night , Killpath would just have to go_out and drag Gun back by the heels once an hour ; because he 'd be damned if he was going_to be a mid-watch pencil-pusher just to please his ulcerated pro-tem captain . (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)So you sit in the car and listen to the air run_out and listen to the rain and see the mud in_front_of the headlights , waiting for you , for your new spectator_pumps , waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt , crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off , because that is being an old_maid too , if you happen to drive a car , it is changing the tire yourself in the night , and in the mud and the rain , hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell
Synonyms Examples "poor damned souls" Used in print (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)`` Dearly beloved '' , he preached , `` unless you repent of your sins in a measure , and become converted to a degree , you will , I regret to say , be damned to a more_or_less extent '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] people who are condemned to eternal punishment
Examples "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned" Related terms |
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