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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
godforsaken
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our car broke down in some godforsaken corner of the Pennsylvania backwoods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But at the time I could not imagine living in such a godforsaken place.
▪ Forget those godforsaken southerners, those peasants.
▪ How could he be intimidated by the threat of expulsion from this godforsaken country?
▪ It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot.
▪ Silhouetted sticks of rotted snow barriers emphasise godforsaken desert stretching for endless miles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
godforsaken

godforsaken \god"for*sak`en\, god-forsaken \god"-for*sak`en\adj.

  1. deserted and unhospitable.

    Syn: desert, desolate, waste, wild.

  2. forlorn.

    Syn: desolate, forlorn, lorn, sad.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
godforsaken

1816, from God + forsaken.

Wiktionary
godforsaken

a. 1 Abandoned by a deity or god. 2 Particularly awful; very bad; miserable; terrible. alt. 1 Abandoned by a deity or god. 2 Particularly awful; very bad; miserable; terrible.

WordNet
godforsaken
  1. adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: desert, waste, wild]

  2. pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" [syn: desolate, forlorn, lorn]

Wikipedia
Godforsaken

Godforsaken is a 2003 Dutch drama film.

The film received a Golden Film (100,000 visitors) and won three Golden Calves.

Usage examples of "godforsaken".

Strawberry Fields is registered on the map as an offshoot of Moor Road, which is in Ramsbottom, a godforsaken village on the Northern limits.

I do, these manufacturers send their travelers around the most godforsaken little villages, they go crawling to the seediest of little shopkeepers, and do you think they offer them prices different from those they offer us big businessmen?

One of the fabricators at Kourou had been buying in launch-vehicle components, not from a duly subsidized plant in some godforsaken corner of Angola or wherever, but from an American company.

Certainly she had never looked prettier, daintier, shown more breeding than she did out here among these Germans with their thick pasterns, and all the cosmopolitan hairy-heeled crowd in this Godforsaken place!

After his fight with Scraliontis, he'd remained unconscious throughout the entire launch, the SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and the crashlanding on this godforsaken planet, wherever it was.

At an early age they had been seized in West Africa and separated from their mothers by this new species, the humans, and removed from all familiar surroundings and put in cages and shipped to this godforsaken alien landscape, the New Mexico desert, where they remained in cages… when they weren't in the hands of a bunch of human ball-breakers in white smocks who strapped them down and zapped them and put them through insane exercises and routines.

At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved.

What were you doing out here in the middle of this godforsaken wilderness?

I mean, rounding up an ethnic minority, and sticking them down in some godforsaken hole, just so you’.

I mean, rounding up an ethnic minority, and sticking them down in some godforsaken hole, just so youll never have to think about them again.

The godforsaken thing that was John Omally was far better kept from the gaze of children or the faint of heart.

Here was this stout little woman searching godforsaken neighborhoods in the dead of night for her missing husband, while Keyes just moped along feeling sorry for himself over a lousy bump on the neck.

All for the sake of salvaging a rockpile in the middle of nowhere, a rockpile that protects a godforsaken wasteland, inhabited only by barbarians, from the predations of bandits whose mercies the land most assuredly deserves.

Besides, who cared as long as the pulverizer kept tearing up the ground on this godforsaken planet.

The reason for this being that Onofre's and Seferino Pacheco's ancestors had come from Spain four centuries before, traveled to this godforsaken place in the high Rockies, and then been cut off from civilization for three hundred years, thus maintaining many of the purities in their Spanish language and in their Spanish customs.