damned
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He annulled her royal title; declared their only child, Elizabeth, illegitimate; and damned her memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
They soon understand that to be heartbroken is to be damned to know the exquisite pain of being alive.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ellison’s father recently took Oracle out of Redwood City, first to Austin, Texas, then to Nashville, workers be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
“I said he’s the best damned bombardier we’ve got, didn’t I?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
He rang his boss, the head of the political section: "I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing."
From BBC ● May 6, 2019
Marvel has an extensive catalogue of characters to anoint as the next generation of Avengers; it’s also doing its damndest to make the X-Men cool again.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019
They lost, 16-12,They lost, 16-12, but Zebo was outstanding, taking his catches, making his tackles, and doing his damndest to break the gainline.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2013
One had to do with the other: The simpler the system was, the less the players had to worry about anything but trying their damndest to execute it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
Here's you hoping and yearning to marry and that's the damndest folly of all.
From Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol
But really, Reijn is doing her damnedest to get a moral rise out of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
“We’re doing our damnedest to get this right,” said Steven Siegel, a board member of the Colorado Healing Fund.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
"It can't achieve strategic surprise but it will try its damnedest to achieve operational and tactical surprise. That will involve concealment, camouflage, deception, misinformation which they used quite successfully last autumn."
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
“We will do our damnedest but it’s hard to fight them all.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
“All right,” I said, trying my damnedest to sound like them.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
