Crossword clues for deuced
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deuced \Deu"ced\, a. Devilish; excessive; extreme. [Low] -- Deu"ced*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. (context degree euphemistic dated English) damned.
WordNet
adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "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 (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
Usage examples of "deuced".
When I took the parcel out of the pocket of my poncho I thought it felt deuced heavy, and there, sure enough, was one of those shilling flasks of brandy they sell for chaps to go on the road with.
The Civil Service regulations do not permit of duelling at present, and I found it so deuced hard to work up to the billet that I am not going to imperil my continuance therein.
The deuced chit was like a thorn in his side, though, going her own quiet way.
Sevrin was getting deuced little pleasure out of the constant rounds of gambling, drinking, and wenching.
No getting around it, she was sickly, and there are some deuced odd rumors going around about the chit.
He was a deuced good officer, with a head for details and strategy that even Old Hokey recognized.
A new bride was a deuced nuisance, and that flame-haired widow could make any man forget his own wife, even if the wife was a tiny golden-haired beauty.
The gist of the strategy was that he wanted his wife, and was deuced tired of waiting.
However, it was deuced difficult to marry to advantage when one had never been privileged to set eyes upon an eligible and titled gentleman.
There was the deuced contract, on the gateleg table beside the window.
Even now the deuced tendrils crept out of her chignon and tickled her face.
And every night as they went upstairs, he repeated that, after all, it was deuced lucky.
There was the deuced contract, on the gateleg table beside the window.
She looked deuced odd with just the one mast instead of two, but her hull was shapely: none of the boxiness of a ship o' war.
It was the fourth day, and I was lounging in the camp's little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camels know the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer, when Kutebar came in a great bustle to take me to Yakub Beg at once.