Confoundedly
[kәn'fajndidli]
Definition
(adv.) Extremely; odiously; detestable.
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Examples
- A tall man--a confoundedly tall man--with black whiskers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I wish Tamsie were not such a confoundedly good little woman, said Wildeve, so that I could be faithful to you without injuring a worthy person. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I'm confoundedly gone on you--that's about the size of it--and I'm just giving you a plain business statement of the consequences. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This is a confoundedly out-of-the-way place,' said Mortimer, slipping over the stones and refuse on the shore, as the boy turned the corner sharp. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No; I expect he will be surprised and confoundedly jealous. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It's confoundedly dull, anyhow; New York is dying of dullness, Beaufort grumbled. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Things went confoundedly with me in New York; those Yankees are cool hands, and a man of gentlemanly feelings has no chance with them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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