2. Adjective. Surprising, remarkable, amazing. ¹
3. Noun. One's best effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Damnedest
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damnedest
Literary usage of Damnedest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Composition and Human Ills: Mental and Physiological : Facts and by Charles McCormick (1919)
"They are the damnedest rascals of all. SOME OF OUR GRADUATES. Dr. GS Ames, DeFuniak
Spgs., Fla. Dr. WF Aydelotte, Dixon, 111. Dr. AM Bancroft, Salem, Ore. ..."
2. Report and Testimony of the Special Committee of the Assembly to Investigate by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee to Investigate the Desirability of Municipal Ownership of Street Railroads (1896)
"... mayors since my day, he says, Mr. Fuller, it is the damnedest fraud I ever
knew, this 'commission ; he took the ground road would not cost less than ..."
3. The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne by Walter Vaughan (1920)
"I think you are the damnedest—I was going to say the damnedest fool I have ever
known, but I can't say that because I have known two or three others who ..."
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