Damned
[dæmd]
Definition
(noun.) people who are condemned to eternal punishment; 'he felt he had visited the realm of the damned'.
(adv.) in a damnable manner; 'kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!'.
Inputed by Isabella--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Damn
(a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
(a.) Hateful; detestable; abominable.
Checker: Stella
Examples
- He's a damned bad landlord. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was willing to be sealed thus in the underworld, like a soul damned but living forever in damnation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It's damned funny, but I can. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She--she's sent me back some things I gave her--some damned trinkets. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I can't take the damned pack-horse, Robert Jordan thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I'm damned if this isn't the quarest start that ever I knowed! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What fiend more wanton in his mischief, what damned soul more worthy of perdition! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Probably have to go damned quickly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You're damned right, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I like your face, Lady Jane: it's got none of the damned high-boned Binkie look in it; and I'll give ee something pretty, my dear, to go to Court in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But that damned woman made me see it as though I had been there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Lincoln Steffens calls these people our damned rascals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And yet, still, he was damned and doomed to the old effort at serious living. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He would be damned if he would have his head shaved like Golz. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Gail