damndest

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Yet last week he was doing his durnedest to come across as "just plain Bill."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was there to do his durnedest, not to inspect objects of interest by the wayside.

From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

If you were to believe the frequent declarations, every puncher on the ranch had done his durnedest to put ’er up, and put ’er up right.

From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto