Sentence examples for damned from inspiring English sources

The word "damned" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an intensifier to make a stronger expression of disapproval or displeasure. For example, "I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't!".

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damned

adjective

God-forsaken.

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twitter.com/Obama2012/stat… Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.20pm BST23 20 Debate moderator Candy Crowley has reaffirmed her intention to ask follow-up questions at tonight's debate, the campaigns' lawyers' wishes be damned.

It's massive and it's ugly,' he says with a big grin, too smart, too damned relaxed to be drawn into a harangue about the ills of the movie industry.

Jack, don't pay your band!) is laughable, but it speaks volumes about the double standards with which the world tackles the music industry: you're damned if you play by the rules, and you're damned if you find a creative way to thwart them.

While some may long for the muted sensory world of winter – the hushed din and dulled scents of a blanketed metropolis – the city's signature, ebullient blaring tends to correlate with a welcome uptick in the mercury, summer street garbage be damned.

Even Cook, who with his record should have the confidence to speak and be damned, has had the look of a man being held hostage against his will and forced by hidden snipers to sit in front of a board covered in adverts and talk about hitting good areas and executing skill-sets and this not being the moment to discuss matters currently under wide-ranging review.

What Katie said... How she damned her Apprentice rivals: On Kristina Grimes 'Kristina is a total arse-coverer.

She told Radio 4's Today programme: "It seems the kids of Birmingham are already damned as being extremists before the official Ofsted report.

We, like all living things, need the recognition of others, otherwise we are damned.

Moreover, by the 1840s London's overcrowded churchyards (and the older, small commercial grounds in the centre of the capital) were not only seen as posing a logistical challenge, but damned as a source of "miasma".

Indeed – as any observant visitor will spot on the Energy landing, where Shell's sponsorship ensures that hydrogen (our only possible large-scale future fuel) is damned with the faintest of praise.

Either way Pietersen – who noted in that damned book that by 2013 the home Ashes series was "low-key" compared to 2005 – will now be watching from the sidelines.

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