Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Devilishly; confoundedly.
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- adverb degree, informal Quite;
extremely
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- adverb (used as intensives) extremely
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Examples
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It was deucedly unpleasant, he decided, this being peppered at; and nonsensical as it really was, it was none the less deadly serious.
Chapter 27 2010
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You must be referring to yourself as a progressive in order to mock progressives, deucedly clever of you.
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That editorial judgment is not infallible is hardly news, but by the same token seeking to make editorial judgment actionable in a court of law is news... and deucedly troublesome news at that.
Ivan Katz: The Court Room Instead of the Concert Hall? Ivan Katz 2010
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That editorial judgment is not infallible is hardly news, but by the same token seeking to make editorial judgment actionable in a court of law is news ... and deucedly troublesome news at that.
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They are hard to manage because they are deucedly clever and lazy at the same time.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Women, you see — in certain matters, they have a deucedly keen intuition —
The Master Builder 2008
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August 3, 2008 at 12:04 pm nawt just fast, she be deucedly clebber also.
Radioactive kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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We know very little about Vargas non-actor Argentino Vargas is an Argentine day laborer, apart from the fact that he has been locked away for decades and that he is deucedly deft with a machete, at one point pulling into his boat a stray goat that he butchers quicker than you could withdraw $30 from an ATM.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep Arbogast 2008
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Women, you see — in certain matters, they have a deucedly keen intuition —
The Master Builder 2008
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But as to study – I must own to you, I hate it most deucedly.
Camilla 2008
bilby commented on the word deucedly
Tom Swiftie waiting to happen.
November 29, 2008