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damnedest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
damnedest
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "It's the damnedest case I've ever seen," said the sheriff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
▪ But by now most of us well know that these intermittent statistics are the damnedest of lies.
▪ He has done his damnedest to supply the etymologies whenever he can, and they all ring true.
▪ He was a natural you find them sometimes if you're lucky and from the damnedest backgrounds.
▪ If I do as you suggest and tell Billy about us, he will do his damnedest to destroy me in revenge.
▪ It was only by the damnedest luck I found his apartment.
▪ Merry collapsed on a heap of mud, and the bull tried his damnedest to get him.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
damnedest

also damndest, originally damnedst, 1830, superlative of damned (see damn).

Wiktionary
damnedest

a. 1 (en-superlative of: damned) 2 surprising, remarkable, amazing. n. One's best effort.

Usage examples of "damnedest".

Subble said, "but I suspect that you and Veg and Aquilon represent the damnedest trio I have encountered.

Rudy Graveline could not accommodate all the snowbirds, but he did his damnedest.

Speaking for his less articulate buddies, Dougie Siefried rolled his eyes, moaning, "That woman is sex-y," making suggestive motions like he was trying his damnedest to keep his hands off his crotch.

He'll go throuah life knowing that just about every guy in the class tried his damnedest to cop a feel of his wife.

The mistakes he had made weren't such as would normally have discommoded him and he had done his damnedest to rectify them by eliminating me.

The entrenched bureaucracy could throw up the damnedest obstacles when they felt threatened and did not seem to give a damn that there was a war on.

As to the janitors and people like that, as Control put it, Sam should do his damnedest to act natural and look busy.

He popped to his feet like a jumping jack, a stooped, undernourished, middle-aged man with the damnedest expression of baffled indignation on his face.

I know perfectly well that you're going to do your damnedest to avoid the newsies, and that even if you fail, they're bound to get the story's details wrong—they always do!

Out at the Air Force Academy we've got the damnedest collection of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and other denizens of academia you ever saw.

The rail yard and boat yards are the damnedest messes you've ever seen.

They guided us back by torch-glow, singing the whole distance, on a twelve-tone scale with some of the damnedest harmony I have ever come across.

I told myself that even the unlikeliest folk do the damnedest things .