What is "dratted"

Usage examples of "dratted".

All she wanted was to get the dratted thing out of her sight and out of her possession forever.

At my last visit there were at least fifteen children living at Brandon House in the Cotswalds, very close to Chadwyck House where my uncle, my aunt Sophie, and Grayson, one of my dratted cousins, live, although Grayson is now at Oxford.

I suppose that I must be honest since my father is the vicar and this business of honesty is quite important to him, all the boys were my dratted cousins.

She saw all her relatives spread out behind them, all of them speaking and laughing, the dratted boy cousins being idiots, as always.

I was swimming once when I was very young with my dratted boy cousins, and they took off their clothes.

James and Jason, would be as beautiful as Lord Kipper when they were his age, and that was saying something indeed since her dratted cousins had been so beautiful since early boyhood that her uncle Douglas and aunt Alex had been constantly bombarded with gifts from all the girls in the neighborhood, hoping to be noticed by the twins.

All her dratted cousins were boys, and outrageous, just like their fathers, even her brothers, Max and Leo, seemed to know things, yes, even Max the Latin scholar.

William said, and Meggie knew a whine when she heard it, having four brothers and so many dratted boy cousins about.

She looked again at Jeremy, saw a man she would like and admire for the rest of her life, her children playing with his, this man, her almost dratted cousin, who cared enough about her to come with her father and Mary Rose to Pendragon.

Not those dratted Orangemen and their battles against the Ribbonmen and Hiberians again.

I hoped I’d given the dratted clothes a hard enough pitch to keep them dry, but not hard enough to throw them into a bramblebush… or I’d be spending my planned period of self-indulgence manifesting a new set just like them, out here in the middle of nowhere, by magic, with nothing but my emergency kit and whatever happened to grow handy for makings.

What I say is, she ain't got no call to go trapesing off to nurse them dratted brats of Polly's!