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Damnedest - What does it mean?

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damnedest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (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."

    • Noun

    (-)
  • 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."

    • See also

    * darnedest

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