damnedest
English
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Adjective
damnedest
- superlative form of damned: most damned; surprising, remarkable, amazing.
- 1900, Phillip Gardner, Someone to Crawl Back to, page 107:
- "And the damnedest thing happened. I was dreaming, but in my dream I was dreaming. It was the damnedest thing, really."
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Noun
damnedest (uncountable)
- One's best effort.
- 1991, Cathy Cash Spellman, Paint the Wind, page 148:
- "Fancy was doing her damnedest to pull her own oar and the boys were tripping all over themselves to treat her like a lady."
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