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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
darned
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (damn/darned/darn) sight more/better etc
▪ Actually, a damn sight more than from that stiff gherkin Smott.
▪ I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober.
▪ If he listened to Anthony Scrivener, he would be a darned sight better.
▪ Perhaps not up there with Wilburforce but a damn sight more daring than anything Diana ever did!
▪ The Galapagos finch was a darn sight more valuable than Sandra Willmot.
▪ We were a darned sight better than them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But you're all going to have to work a darned sight harder.
▪ He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis.
▪ Perhaps, after all, a general election is only the sublimation of a darned good riot.
▪ Seems the boy was flying too low, hit one of those darned electricity cables.
▪ We were a darned sight better than them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
darned

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
darned
  1. (context euphemistic English) A minced oath for damned adv. (context degree English) damned, extremely alt. (en-past of: darn) See (term darn etymology 1 damn) and (term darn etymology 2 mend) v

  2. (en-past of: darn) See (term darn etymology 1 damn) and (term darn etymology 2 mend)

WordNet
darned

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, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]

Usage examples of "darned".

But, by way of recreation, after the supper dishes had been washed up, Gertie darned socks, mended shirts, patched trousers for the men folk or sewed on some garment for herself.

You thought yourself a darned sight better than me, because you could play the piano and speak French.

You even tried to shoot me and I only made you look like a darned fool.

Buttonhole edging with darned centre, centre filled with strands of wool caught down at intervals with double back stitch.

The shamrock leaf has a darned contour of double threads, the filling was in stem stitch, solid, with bars of a darker colour worked across it.

The two small petals filled solid with stem stitch, three rows of which are used for outlining the long petal, the centre being filled with rings in buttonhole stitch and darned background.

Destiny read some kind of warning there, but darned if she could figure out what it meant.

He was darned lucky to have the support of his parents and Sylvia, people he could trust with Kayla.

This whole mess harked back to his stupid slip--calling her Lanni as the darned alarm jolted him awake.

When the price rose to fifteen thousand, Minty literally clung onto his hands and told him not to be a darned fool.

When I saw you standing there waving, I thought the whole darned works were all fouled up.

Everything was old, but not old enough for beauty: shabby furniture of last century, odds and ends of china, threadbare carpets, darned curtains, oleographs on the walls - a home carefully kept, but without comfort or grace.

She saw again his crisp white lace stock, the stockings that covered his scrawny shanks lovingly darned by her mother, and the pinchbeck buckles on his square-toed shoes, polished until they shone like pure silver.

It was now to bring me up against Tillary Steevens, white man, but a darned sight blacker than Sam in all but his skin.

His linen trews, patched as well, were under his woolen trews, which for a change, had been darned except for the seat which sported a huge patch made from an old canvas tent.