Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective In various religions, condemned to eternal punishment.
- adjective Destined to an unhappy fate.
- adjective Informal Deserving condemnation; detestable.
- adjective Used as an intensive.
- adverb Used as an intensive.
- noun People who are damned considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Condemned; judicially sentenced; specifically, (reputed to be) sentenced to punishment in a future state; consigned to perdition.
- Hateful; detestable; abominable: a profane objurgation, also used adverbially to express more or less intense dislike: as an adverb also simply intensive, equivalent to ‘very,’ ‘exceedingly,’ employed to strengthen an adjective used in either reprobation or approbation, and in sound often shortened to dam. In literary use often printed d—d.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
- adjective Hateful; detestable; abominable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
god-forsaken - adjective Variant of profane
damn . - adverb vulgar
Very . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
damn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a damnable manner
- noun people who are condemned to eternal punishment
- adjective expletives used informally as intensifiers
- adjective in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
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Examples
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"By George!" said Marmaduke, admiringly, "he did that damned well -- _damned_ well.
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903
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You know what they call the damned thing when women have it -- kleptomania, isn't it?
An Amiable Charlatan 1906
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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."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"Now, that's what I call a damned good fellow: you don't often meet a chap like him," observed the master.
The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820
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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!?
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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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.
Death in L.A.; Southern Suspicion; Spenser Gets Artistic Tom Nolan 2010
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I'm in damned good company too -- if you're looking for a masterclass in contemporary sf, this would be the place to start:
Boing Boing 2008
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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.
High Society Elton, Ben 2002
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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).
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2002
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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.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount - November 20, 2000 2000
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