Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or damnation.
- Odiously; detestably; abominably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
- adverb Low Odiously; detestably; excessively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
damnable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a damnable manner
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Examples
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Digital statistics are damnably variable according to the rules you count by the Mail has an even more mind-boggling 84m uniques on the latest ABCe releases.
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“Goodness, you people get up damnably early,” Etheredge said, trying to shake himself awake.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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My family hates numbers and not just because numbers are hard to figure, but also because the numbers that matter most, those preceded by currency symbols, are, for my middle-class family of three, so damnably scarce.
Tony Phillips: Small, Median and Obscenely Large: There's Nothing Average About the Middle Class Tony Phillips 2011
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 Why does everything have to be some damnably dark?
Dueling Review: Siege: The Cabal #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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It was only the logic of youth, but it could hurt damnably at times.
Chapter 13 2010
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The rangers were uncouth and beneath his approval, and besides they were damnably hard to supply at their isolated stations.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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These are protector deities, for whose favors humans beg. But if you face them after a long day when things haven't gone your way, you realize they are also those internal demons ignorance, desire, willfulness—take your pick that make the act of living a good life so damnably difficult.
A Tibetan Study Reborn Lee Lawrence 2011
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My family hates numbers and not just because numbers are hard to figure, but also because the numbers that matter most, those preceded by currency symbols, are, for my middle-class family of three, so damnably scarce.
Tony Phillips: Small, Median and Obscenely Large: There's Nothing Average About the Middle Class Tony Phillips 2011
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I looked up at him, so close, so damnably, deliciously close.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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And our sunset to-night -- I am writing this at midnight, as I sit propped in my blankets, wedged by pillows, while the Elsinore wallows damnably in a dead calm and a huge swell rolling up from the Cape
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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