<adv.all> you are bloody right Why are you so all-fired aggressive? [ adj ]
used as expletives
<adj.all> oh, damn (or goddamn)!
expletives used informally as intensifiers
<adj.all> 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 an infernal nuisance
Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. {Condemn}, {Damage}.] 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. --Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. --Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damn \Damn\, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. ``While I inwardly damn.'' --Goldsmith.
"Quit this damn hype" that all types of cholesterol are bad for everybody, Mineur told the committee.
It is not an instance of the elusiveness or reshaping of truth: The circumstantial evidence does damn the professor.
Before heading off to visit his mother at a Concord nursing home, Souter said it felt "damn good" to be back in the Granite State.
I don't know how you feel, my dear, But frankly, I don't give a damn.
ABC and CBS in particular, he says, have been "handed a lemon, and they're calling it damn fine lemonade."
"I would complain about him a lot more if he weren't so damn successful," Mr. Gingrich says.
When in the end they found out they had no damn influence at all." Pingree, managing director for four months, said he regretted that the group quit.
"I don't give a damn about vengeance," he thunders.
He said, `Mike, I'm damn disappointed because I'm going to miss you, but I wish you well.'
None of them gives a damn about the American way. It has been done before of course, but rarely so well.
Your editorial's (unintentional?) message is, "Ms. O'Connor is a damn good publicist."
"We work damn hard at what we do for damn little pay, and what she did cast unfair aspersions on all of us."
"We work damn hard at what we do for damn little pay, and what she did cast unfair aspersions on all of us."
"It's clear that the Ministry of Finance doesn't give a damn about the stock market," one U.S. analyst said of the decision to proceed with the bond sale.
"We want all the conventions we can get and we don't give a damn who they are," said John Reible, a spokesman for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
In the past, he says, "many were too damn liberal." However, some companies need financing desperately.
"I leave it up to the lawyers and accountants to be damn sure we comply,' Bentsen said. "Then I don't worry about it.
"I've got to believe that a person doesn't make an offer that big without being damn sure about the facts.
"It is damn both your houses," he said.
"Too damn low and chopped up to even think of pulling through here," he says of one spot in the mud.
"I don't give a damn about the right-to-lifers," Mrs. Reagan retorted. "I'm cutting back on the Iran stuff, too.
I was damn successful." So far, the debate over the Bush drug program has been restrained and polite.
"If I satisfy the customer's needs," he says, "a damn fine living rubs off on me." In a novel twist, firms are now rewarding brokers for treating clients well.
You're damn right there's a danger.
It is "damn near inert," says McGarry; it won't react with chemicals or break down in the environment.
"I'm going to tell you, everybody's damn tired of rules changes," said Slagle. "And I think the average Democrat thinks we're absolutely insane if we get into another big battle about rules.
Sykes demands. "For all those missiles you sold to the same damn people who blew up barracks and murdered 241 American boys?
"Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn!" he bellowed, explaining later that Clark Gable's line from "Gone With The Wind" was intended to be no insult for the Walk.
"We may sometimes not be good at explaining everything," Whiteman told the sometimes hostile crowd. "But we damn well tell the truth." The response was boos and catcalls from half the audience.
He blurted out that he would just as soon sell "the whole damn thing and be done with it," they both now agree.