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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
damned
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ And hangovers were so damned painful.
▪ She also wished he didn't sound so damned exotic.
▪ They were Judith's children, so why were they so damned unprepossessing?
▪ Don't be so damned poor-spirited.
▪ Because he is so damned real that you think this pain and suffering is really him.
▪ And he looks so damned harmless.
■ NOUN
fool
▪ And when I did I behaved like a damned fool.
▪ Silently she cursed herself for being such a damned fool.
▪ Although only a damned fool would believe it.
thing
▪ Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings, we might as well forget the whole damned thing.
▪ I have to do every damned thing for myself.
▪ Then he remembered he'd given up smoking the damned thing.
▪ I instinctively had a quick look but I couldn't see a damned thing.
▪ Recently he has found himself working late in the office, unpaid overtime, trying to get the damned thing right.
▪ I thought I'd actually got rid of the damned things.
▪ And there wasn't a damned thing he could do about it.
▪ You're lucky I didn't sell the damned things.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(I'll be/I'm) damned if ...
I'll be damned
▪ They came and got it already? I'll be damned.
be damned
▪ Can the church really decide if I will be eternally damned or blessed?
▪ I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome.
▪ It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism.
▪ Most of them are damned, he said.
▪ She is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't.
▪ Smith is not, as Graham Greene might have said, man enough to be damned.
▪ They were singing in the halls, singing from their windows, just hell be damned and look out.
▪ We were damned well forcing each other to live full out.
▪ Why, Seikaly was damned near fully operational.
damned if you do, damned if you don't
one (damn/damned) thing after another
▪ Just one damn thing after another.
▪ She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
▪ Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
publish and be damned
▪ But it was entitled to publish and be damned.
II.noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(I'll be/I'm) damned if ...
I'll be damned
▪ They came and got it already? I'll be damned.
be damned
▪ Can the church really decide if I will be eternally damned or blessed?
▪ I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome.
▪ It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism.
▪ Most of them are damned, he said.
▪ She is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't.
▪ Smith is not, as Graham Greene might have said, man enough to be damned.
▪ They were singing in the halls, singing from their windows, just hell be damned and look out.
▪ We were damned well forcing each other to live full out.
▪ Why, Seikaly was damned near fully operational.
damned if you do, damned if you don't
do/try your damnedest
▪ We both tried our damnedest but it didn't work.
▪ All right, tell the girls, do your damnedest.
▪ But both the Trust and those of us lucky enough to live there will do our damnedest to prevent it.
▪ He had tried to make it work, tried his damnedest, but she had absolutely no sense of taste or refinement.
▪ If I do as you suggest and tell Billy about us, he will do his damnedest to destroy me in revenge.
one (damn/damned) thing after another
▪ Just one damn thing after another.
▪ She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
▪ Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
publish and be damned
▪ But it was entitled to publish and be damned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
damned

darned \darned\ adj. an intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned; as, for no darned reason at all.

Syn: blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, gosh-darned.

Wiktionary
damned
  1. 1 god-forsaken 2 Variant of profane damn. adv. (context vulgar English) very. v

  2. (en-past of: damn)

WordNet
damned
  1. 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, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]

  2. in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved]

  3. n. people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned"

  4. adv. in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damnably, cursedly]

Wikipedia
Damned

Damned or The Damned may refer to:

  • Damnation, a concept of divine punishment and torment, and use of the term as a profanity
Damned (Eva Avila song)

"Damned" is the second single taken from Eva Avila's Give Me the Music album. The single reached Chum FMs 10 Most Wanted countdown numerous times and peaked at 21 on the CHUM Chart and 83 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Damned (Palahniuk novel)

Damned is a 2011 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. A sequel to the novel, Doomed, was released in 2013.

Damned (album)

Damned is an eighth studio album by Swedish crust punk band Wolfbrigade which was released on April 23, 2012 via Southern Lord Records.

Usage examples of "damned".

Van den Bos, tanned still from his damned winter sports, perform the classic aqualung tricks.

Mr Arbutus to answer in kind and reversing the natural order of things to tell Mr Gibling and Mr Gibling to sue and be damned.

But I think we should eat while the eating is good, and be damned to Asper and the gods.

Sweat and tax and graft the last dollar out of the damned asterites, and take it back to buy a penthouse and a mistress and the gout in Panama City.

We landed here for water, as we have just lain becalmed off a damned island full of ghost snakes and walking statues.

The parson, forgetting the sacerdotal office, and his good habit of grinning, swore at Messrs Beit and Mr Ritson, calling them damned thieves, and then began to read the manuscript, and to compare it with the printed book.

Leon had called Moynihan late Sunday night, but the piping voice of the Benet body had not been authoritative enough to get any information out of that damned Irish hoodlum.

He clearly saw a first edition of the damned poem with title page a horrid mixture of typefaces, fat ill-drawn nymphs on it, a round chop which said Bibliotheca Somethingorother.

Hell no, it wasnt worth it, not when you might crimp your own concatenation, what was it to you if some damned son of a bitching stupid fool of an antediluvian got himself beheaded by a progressive world by going around in a dream world and trying to live up to a romantic, backward ideal of individual integrity?

Havermeyer was the best damned bombardier they had, but he flew straight and level all the way from the I.

Then, abruptly, men were screaming, crying and fighting for the precious bracky, like the legions of the damned grabbing for lottery tickets when the prize was a passport to paradise.

No, the army would take a damned dim view of being faced down by a bushwhacker and pulling out of a long-established garrison post just because a few of their soldiers have been killed.

Every time I made a circuit I saw the green hillside behind the cenote coming closer until it was too damned close altogether and I thought the blades of the rotor were going to chop into projecting branches.

If the damned Furies had just held their horses a few minutes longer and attacked the Voyager after the away team was slapped in chokey, the favored might never have guessed that the pins were devices.

She wished it would tip over and he would cosh himself on his damned head.