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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Damned.

Wiktionary

  1. v. Simple past tense and past participle of darn. See etymology 1 ("damn") and etymology 2 ("mend")
  2. adj. euphemistic A minced oath for damned
  3. adv. degree Damned, extremely

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. an intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. expletives used informally as intensifiers

Examples

  • “It's what you'd call a darned good offer," explained Armstrong:”

    The Dominant Dollar

  • “He went on to say he would be "darned" if US Bancorp were to become part of of the "collateral damage" from the government's "sloppy attempt at nationalizing the [banking] industry.”

    US Bancorp Blasts TARP As Giant Bait And Switch On America - The Consumerist

  • “It's kind of darned if you do and darned if you don't, though.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2008

  • “Remember when I darned "My So-Called Life" and put it on my 'darned' list.”

    Archive 2007-10-01

  • “E came along' ere only the other day, 'e did, and' e says to me, 'e says,' darned 'f I can see why a station-master should beat a professional gardener at' is own game, '' e says, 'but you do.”

    Mr. Britling Sees It Through

  • “One was a new structure and the other two were old barns which had been "darned" here and there with new material, and their yawed sides were propped with joists.”

    The Landloper

  • “Martin could not help frowning for a moment, as if he were disposed to insinuate that the gentleman had unconsciously 'darned' himself.”

    Martin Chuzzlewit

  • “And yet, over the years, I've come to regard contract negotiation stories, and the pursuit of them, as a Faustian Bargain, where I'm "darned" if I do and "darned" if I don't.”

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

  • “I say 'darned' because men don't need it as much as we sometimes do.”

    Latest Articles

  • “So when I put "darned" into a post, and it didn't show up, I thought THAT word was in their stupid filter.”

    Think Progress

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