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Definition of damn in English: damnverb damdæm [with object]1be damned(in Christian belief) be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell. I treated her badly and I'll be damned to hell for it Example sentencesExamples - Mephistophilis is one of the angels who conspired with Lucifer and was damned to hell.
- If God was so loving why were people who committed suicide immediately damned to hell.
- Faustus is ultimately damned and falls to hell.
- Though I am not a Christian, because of my experience I can honestly say I know what it feels like to be eternally damned.
- Those who receive the mark, according to Scripture, are damned to eternal punishment.
- 1.1 Be doomed to misfortune or failure.
the enterprise was damned Example sentencesExamples - Where the substance is glorified in this disc, the style, unfortunately, is damned.
- It was not the country that was damned but the settler who felt in his heart that he was damned.
- This isn't to say the project was damned, but rather the fact that it's more difficult to create a compelling work when it's based on music with no clear emotional ambit.
Synonyms ill-fated, doomed, blighted, ill-omened, foredoomed, infelicitous
2Criticize strongly. the book damns her husband Example sentencesExamples - Every time I see the papers commentating on an English sporting team they are either praised as the next World Champions or damned as sporting failures.
- Praised from the start for its technology and styling, commentators nevertheless unanimously damned the computer's price as just too high.
- Bogdanor, an expert in constitutional affairs damned the Bill as ‘picking on a vulnerable minority.’
- Despite being damned as ‘failing’ as little as two years ago, the latest inspectors' report said conditions had been turned around by the prison's new governor.
- In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
- These, then, are the ‘teenage tearaways’ demonised in sections of the press, and frequently damned by politicians seeking a cheap populist soundbite.
- Then, almost in the blink of an eye, it was being damned by environmentalists as a major polluter of our inland waters, a blight on the landscape, a hazard to health, and a threat to other wildlife.
- I sought additional material from Galloway and other sources to bolster that defense and to my surprise, found more that damned him than supported him.
- Crawford damned the ‘naysayers and negativism that surrounds us’ and said he had no doubt that the course on which the agency had been set was the right one.
- It already has one of the worst congestion problems in the country - and now Southampton's crumbling roads have been damned too.
- Historically the worker's party, Labor is damned by the Liberals as being the party of the part, the section, the group, the collective, the union.
- He certainly feels like he is being unfairly damned.
- One of his friends has recently been publicly damned for his recreational drug habits.
- He is no supporter of the ACT party, but he damned this Budget because there is nothing in it for working people.
- He also damned the Opposition, saying that after the Tampa affair its ineffectiveness had deprived the country of genuine democratic debate before the election.
- It concluded with 363 pages that damned every organisation and nearly every senior individual involved for their actions.
- Though he damned the prime minister for the war he did not demand his resignation or rule out future cooperation with him or his successor.
- The show handles religion brilliantly and has been variously damned as anti-Christian and hailed as the most moral programme on the box - no mean feat.
- The incident has been damned by local councillor Cronin, who said that the boys and their families had been severely traumatised by the events.
- The country is either damned as a greedy imperialist on one hand or as a stonehearted isolationist on the other - it simply can't do anything right.
Synonyms condemn, censure, criticize, attack, denounce, deplore, decry, revile, inveigh against blame, chastise, castigate, berate, upbraid, reprimand, rebuke, reprove, reprehend, take to task, find fault with, give someone/something a bad press deprecate, disparage informal slam, hammer, lay into, cane, blast British informal slate, slag off, have a go at archaic slash, reprobate rare excoriate, vituperate, arraign, objurgate, anathematize - 2.1 Curse (someone or something)
she cleared her throat, damning it for its huskiness damn him for making this sound trivial Example sentencesExamples - Winded for a moment, he pulled himself up, damned himself for an old fool, and tried to get back to his feet.
- For one short moment I damned them, damned their eyes, and wished their farm machine a rapid and terminally rusty death.
- And, as a parable, we should all be careful what we damn in public.
- He felt the pain in the shoulder, where the arrow had hit him, and he damned his ship, his fate, the entire curse of his life.
- I damned myself for become so wrapped up in the conversation.
- She damned herself, she had forgotten her father was going to be home all day today.
- As I sat there, damning and condemning myself, the same two words floated through my mind over and over again.
- He damned himself for being in love with a woman who had no love for him in return, only ambition to rule a poverty-stricken country with a dictator as a husband.
- Then Rome damned Carthage and condemned it to death.
- It was now or never… Just like the Elvis song.… silently, he damned his mother's Elvis collection.
- Weep, said the illustrious poet, for they are damned until mankind has lived for three several generations, perfectly in harmony, peace and love, without discord.
Synonyms curse, put a curse on, put the evil eye on, execrate, imprecate, hoodoo anathematize, excommunicate North American hex informal put a jinx on, jinx rare accurse
exclamationdamdæm informal Expressing anger or frustration. Damn! I completely forgot! Example sentencesExamples - I feel slightly better but my nose is still dripping… damn!
- I just lost today's post because of a Blogger problem - damn!
- Thought it was fine and dandy till it just struck me… damn!
- I guess I'd know that answer if I'd actually paid much attention to Kyle over the duration of our trip to the zoo… damn!
- Ethan said ‘Today I was talking to her in the kiosk and she was going to forgive me but, damn, Kelly interrupted us!’
- I only live about a half-hour from the place, but, damn, I've already spent all of this money on these other tickets.
- What's Cyrus doing here. wait a minute, I'm the one who's not supposed to be here, oh damn!
- Anthony had his head down, and I'm seeing Christensen turn toward him, and, damn, he lets it go.
- I couldv'e got better grades, got a proper job, found some nicer housemates… damn!
- Other cast-iron-contract-clad songbirds must be thinking: damn, I wish I had her lawyer.
- Something sizzled, and the light scent of something burning reached her nose - damn, the bacon.
- One of the women I work with buys it and uses it… damn!
- I have to go back to Queens today cos I forgot my gym clothes - damn, is that ever a drag.
- I had to do this chapter again because when I was going online to do my thank you's to my reviewers, my computer crashed and I lost all my work, damn!
- I think I might just cook up a storm this morning for breakfast… then again I can't cook… damn!
- I look at the clock and realize it's already 6:20 - damn, how long have I been here?
- There are a couple of sentences I'd have phrased a little more sensitively than Bill, but, damn, his heart's in the right place.
- Unfortunately, we were to later find out from Jim Newton that it was actually an easy climb, and that Skittle Alley was no more than fifty yards away - damn!
- Meanwhile at the bottom of the cliff, Paul wakes up in pain - damn, he's still alive.
- Well, there are some other things, but - damn! - am I long-winded, or what?
Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
adjective damdæm informal attributive Used for emphasis, especially to express anger or frustration. turn that damn thing off! as submodifier don't be so damn silly! Example sentencesExamples - However, your second thought upon looking at the brochure was probably: ‘This looks like a damn good collection of productions!’
- Personally, I still think our best hope is that the producers can afford some computer effects and some damn good lighting.
- ‘I was so disgusted that I deleted the damn e-mail before I read it,’ the Republican said.
- Sometimes letting the anger out, and not bottling it up inside feels damn good.
- There's enough bad publicity about this damn silly event without you adding to it.
- Trent looked at me curiously as I had to control my anger and keep myself from breaking the damn phone.
- The whole damn school system is inappropriate!
- It's silly, really, how attached I was to the damn thing, but most little kids do love animals to death, so I suppose it was only natural.
- No disrespect to anyone, but £210 a week for only working 17.5 hours is pretty damn good - it works out at about £12 an hour!
- I spent another fifteen minutes looking for the damn socket slowly becoming more and more frustrated.
- All but two of the candidates have reasons to be damn frustrated.
- I just wished that Damon would open the damn door and end her anger.
- Then, what happened next shocked, angered, and confused him, which is a whole damn lot for a simple guy to be feeling all at once.
- What the living hell am I doing in this damn silly job?
- Even if it's thrown into the sea, the silly hare-brained hound brings the damn thing back.
- The US has the best damn government money can buy.
- Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start making a damn racket so I can't hear what the heck is being said?
- This entire damn neighborhood is uphill, I thought.
- You better be damn careful about using that word.
- So whether another frustrated art lover finally snapped and tore down the damn cover themselves, I don't know.
Phrases Used to express defiance or rejection of someone or something previously mentioned. Example sentencesExamples - Pop punk past be damned, there's now no questioning the authenticity of Neko's C&W efforts.
- We all know, directly or otherwise, how possible is it to get a great nightlife in the city and restrictions be damned.
- They'll look for some way to use the power of the state to their advantage, the truth be damned.
- Since we haven't, we go with what we've got and do the best we can as human beings, doctrine be damned.
- It doesn't matter if they have to lie and distort to do it, the goal is power, and ethics be damned.
- Strategy be damned because we do not have secret proceedings in this country.
- Horizon-broadening be damned; for all its glaring faults and myriad irritations, I like it here.
- They then proceeded to rewrite the rules to suit their agenda, and the opposition be damned.
- The best we can do is estimate the perceived goal of the campaign, rhetoric from the opposition be damned.
- However, there are times when I want to be able to enter a bar and have a highball and a ciggy, health concerns be damned.
there's damn all you can do about it Example sentencesExamples - UN approval has got damn all to do with the morality of the thing.
- They let me have the run of the library and there's damn all else to do here.
- I've drifted about doing damn all this morning, gazing into space and half starting various things but finishing none.
- What starts so modestly as a meditation on the pleasures of doing damn all has in its last movement the nerve and velocity of the gangster film at its purest and most primal.
- I had thought that the second world war addiction was a peculiarly British phenomenon, a drug we reached for because we have achieved damn all as a nation ever since.
- Anyway, that's got damn all to do with anything.
- If the phantom virus does come here, there's damn all they can do about it anyway.
- There's just damn all on worth listening to between 2 and 5.
- It would create a few jobs and relieve congestion and it would cost damn all.
- I haven't commented largely because, as anyone who reads my site will know, I know damn all about economics.
damn someone/something with faint praise Praise someone or something so unenthusiastically as to imply condemnation. it was a wretched review, damning poor Lisa with faint praise Example sentencesExamples - This is an interesting evening and that is not damning it with faint praise.
- In truth, she damns her idols with faint praise.
- So without wanting to damn Simon with faint praise by making that comparison, I don't believe that that's the issue.
- Black thinks it's their best work to date, though he admits this is damning it with faint praise.
- The student never quite got the point that the article damned Luther by faint praise.
- I will admit the animation itself is nice, which is essentially my way of damning the film with faint praise.
- He opens by damning the piece with faint praise, calling it ‘well-intentioned,’ possessing ‘merits of its own.’
- It was generally a good experience for him, but he damns his teachers with faint praise; they were adequate, but uninspiring.
- In 1953, he damns Jaques with faint praise by referring to her as the ‘most skilful practitioner’ of ‘the doggerel school’.
- Not to damn him with faint praise, then, I'll also add that he is one of the more intelligent supporters of the war.
I'm (or I'll be) damned if informal Used to express a strong negative. Example sentencesExamples - I left an irate comment on the blog, but it's obvious the blog owner doesn't come around all that much - and I'm damned if I can find an email link for her on the page anywhere.
- And I'm damned if I'm going to identify myself as a Scot - though some of my clan came from there and I do like that blue flag with the diagonal cross.
- But I'll be damned if I'm going to start viewing my blog like an English 101 project where I have to go back and correct anything that may take my grade down a bit.
- I'm sure when I started writing this there was going to be a point to it but I'm damned if I can remember what it is.
- If anyone can suggest where I might have hidden them, do let me know, because I'm damned if I know.
- I already own more CDs than most other ‘regular’ people, and I'm damned if I'm gonna put up another shelf when the current one fills up.
- This certainly is a pretty space, but I'll be damned if I can figure out if this is a renovation of their existing store at 178 Orchard Street, or a new place altogether.
- Having religiously turned out in all weathers, at every election in the last 44 years, I'm damned if I'm going to be subjected to a system that requires me to sign my ballot paper!
- Well you never know she may not be the criminal I think she is but I'll be damned if that's so.
- We just will not slow down, we know the problem, we know the solution, but I'm damned if we will do anything about it.
informal Have no value at all. your evidence isn't worth a damn Example sentencesExamples - He said, ‘The best story in the world is not worth a damn unless you can get it out.’
- You can invest in all the latest gadgets, have a sophisticated alarm system, etc. but they are not worth a damn if a simple task like locking a front door is not adhered to.
- On the riders who brought shame to his company, he added: ‘They are half-rotten mercenaries and their promises are not worth a damn.’
- Disconcertingly, he replied: ‘It wasn't worth a damn.’
- If we don't take care of our own we really aren't worth a damn.
- Plus the heaters in all the planes were not worth a damn and you were cold an awful lot of times.
- As a neutral you'd have to feel sorry for Waterford but in real terms reaching another All-Ireland semi-final and losing it isn't worth a damn to them.
- He said there was an emerging consensus in the media that a press council with no statutory recognition ‘isn't worth a damn ‘, but that a press council imposed from government would be a bad thing.’
- He was very good at some things, but he wasn't worth a damn at high tech and new ventures.
- There are tactics that work great when you're at the top of the hill that aren't worth a damn when you're at the bottom.
Synonyms jot, whit, iota, rap, scrap, bit
not give (or care) a damn informal Not care at all. people who don't give a damn about the environment
well I'll be (or I'm) damned informal Used to express surprise. Well, I'll be damned! What brings you here? Example sentencesExamples - Well, I'll be damned! What in tarnation are you doing in these parts?
- Well I'm damned; you are quite right.
Origin Middle English: from Old French dam(p)ner, from Latin dam(p)nare 'inflict loss on', from damnum 'loss, damage'. The word damn goes back to Latin damnare ‘to inflict loss on’. Originally to damn someone was to condemn them (a Middle English word from the same root), but associations with being condemned to hell have coloured much of the later history of the word. The desire to avoid profanity led to less offensive alternatives, such as darn, used since the 18th century. The older sense of ‘to condemn’ survives in the phrase to damn with faint praise, which was popularized by the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope in his ‘An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’.
Rhymes am, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, cheongsam, clam, cram, dam, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, gam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, sham, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham, yam Definition of damn in US English: damnverbdamdæm [with object]1be damned(in Christian belief) be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell. be forever damned with Lucifer Example sentencesExamples - Mephistophilis is one of the angels who conspired with Lucifer and was damned to hell.
- Those who receive the mark, according to Scripture, are damned to eternal punishment.
- Faustus is ultimately damned and falls to hell.
- If God was so loving why were people who committed suicide immediately damned to hell.
- Though I am not a Christian, because of my experience I can honestly say I know what it feels like to be eternally damned.
- 1.1 Be doomed to misfortune or failure.
the enterprise was damned Example sentencesExamples - Where the substance is glorified in this disc, the style, unfortunately, is damned.
- This isn't to say the project was damned, but rather the fact that it's more difficult to create a compelling work when it's based on music with no clear emotional ambit.
- It was not the country that was damned but the settler who felt in his heart that he was damned.
Synonyms ill-fated, doomed, blighted, ill-omened, foredoomed, infelicitous
2Condemn, especially by the public expression of disapproval. intellectuals whom he damns as rigid doctrinaire idealists Example sentencesExamples - Then, almost in the blink of an eye, it was being damned by environmentalists as a major polluter of our inland waters, a blight on the landscape, a hazard to health, and a threat to other wildlife.
- These, then, are the ‘teenage tearaways’ demonised in sections of the press, and frequently damned by politicians seeking a cheap populist soundbite.
- Crawford damned the ‘naysayers and negativism that surrounds us’ and said he had no doubt that the course on which the agency had been set was the right one.
- In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
- Historically the worker's party, Labor is damned by the Liberals as being the party of the part, the section, the group, the collective, the union.
- Praised from the start for its technology and styling, commentators nevertheless unanimously damned the computer's price as just too high.
- One of his friends has recently been publicly damned for his recreational drug habits.
- Every time I see the papers commentating on an English sporting team they are either praised as the next World Champions or damned as sporting failures.
- I sought additional material from Galloway and other sources to bolster that defense and to my surprise, found more that damned him than supported him.
- It concluded with 363 pages that damned every organisation and nearly every senior individual involved for their actions.
- Bogdanor, an expert in constitutional affairs damned the Bill as ‘picking on a vulnerable minority.’
- The country is either damned as a greedy imperialist on one hand or as a stonehearted isolationist on the other - it simply can't do anything right.
- The show handles religion brilliantly and has been variously damned as anti-Christian and hailed as the most moral programme on the box - no mean feat.
- Despite being damned as ‘failing’ as little as two years ago, the latest inspectors' report said conditions had been turned around by the prison's new governor.
- It already has one of the worst congestion problems in the country - and now Southampton's crumbling roads have been damned too.
- He also damned the Opposition, saying that after the Tampa affair its ineffectiveness had deprived the country of genuine democratic debate before the election.
- He certainly feels like he is being unfairly damned.
- Though he damned the prime minister for the war he did not demand his resignation or rule out future cooperation with him or his successor.
- He is no supporter of the ACT party, but he damned this Budget because there is nothing in it for working people.
- The incident has been damned by local councillor Cronin, who said that the boys and their families had been severely traumatised by the events.
Synonyms condemn, censure, criticize, attack, denounce, deplore, decry, revile, inveigh against - 2.1 Curse (someone or something)
she cleared her throat, damning it for its huskiness damn him for making this sound trivial Example sentencesExamples - He felt the pain in the shoulder, where the arrow had hit him, and he damned his ship, his fate, the entire curse of his life.
- He damned himself for being in love with a woman who had no love for him in return, only ambition to rule a poverty-stricken country with a dictator as a husband.
- As I sat there, damning and condemning myself, the same two words floated through my mind over and over again.
- Winded for a moment, he pulled himself up, damned himself for an old fool, and tried to get back to his feet.
- I damned myself for become so wrapped up in the conversation.
- Then Rome damned Carthage and condemned it to death.
- For one short moment I damned them, damned their eyes, and wished their farm machine a rapid and terminally rusty death.
- It was now or never… Just like the Elvis song.… silently, he damned his mother's Elvis collection.
- Weep, said the illustrious poet, for they are damned until mankind has lived for three several generations, perfectly in harmony, peace and love, without discord.
- She damned herself, she had forgotten her father was going to be home all day today.
- And, as a parable, we should all be careful what we damn in public.
Synonyms curse, put a curse on, put the evil eye on, execrate, imprecate, hoodoo
exclamationdamdæm informal Expressing anger, surprise, or frustration. Damn! I completely forgot! Example sentencesExamples - Well, there are some other things, but - damn! - am I long-winded, or what?
- I only live about a half-hour from the place, but, damn, I've already spent all of this money on these other tickets.
- Ethan said ‘Today I was talking to her in the kiosk and she was going to forgive me but, damn, Kelly interrupted us!’
- I guess I'd know that answer if I'd actually paid much attention to Kyle over the duration of our trip to the zoo… damn!
- I had to do this chapter again because when I was going online to do my thank you's to my reviewers, my computer crashed and I lost all my work, damn!
- Thought it was fine and dandy till it just struck me… damn!
- I couldv'e got better grades, got a proper job, found some nicer housemates… damn!
- Other cast-iron-contract-clad songbirds must be thinking: damn, I wish I had her lawyer.
- Anthony had his head down, and I'm seeing Christensen turn toward him, and, damn, he lets it go.
- What's Cyrus doing here. wait a minute, I'm the one who's not supposed to be here, oh damn!
- I think I might just cook up a storm this morning for breakfast… then again I can't cook… damn!
- I feel slightly better but my nose is still dripping… damn!
- I look at the clock and realize it's already 6:20 - damn, how long have I been here?
- I just lost today's post because of a Blogger problem - damn!
- I have to go back to Queens today cos I forgot my gym clothes - damn, is that ever a drag.
- One of the women I work with buys it and uses it… damn!
- Meanwhile at the bottom of the cliff, Paul wakes up in pain - damn, he's still alive.
- Unfortunately, we were to later find out from Jim Newton that it was actually an easy climb, and that Skittle Alley was no more than fifty yards away - damn!
- There are a couple of sentences I'd have phrased a little more sensitively than Bill, but, damn, his heart's in the right place.
- Something sizzled, and the light scent of something burning reached her nose - damn, the bacon.
Synonyms damn, damnation, blast, hell, heck, gordon bennett
adjectivedamdæm informal attributive Used for emphasis, especially to express anger or frustration. turn that damn thing off! as submodifier don't be so damn silly! Example sentencesExamples - The whole damn school system is inappropriate!
- No disrespect to anyone, but £210 a week for only working 17.5 hours is pretty damn good - it works out at about £12 an hour!
- What the living hell am I doing in this damn silly job?
- Personally, I still think our best hope is that the producers can afford some computer effects and some damn good lighting.
- Even if it's thrown into the sea, the silly hare-brained hound brings the damn thing back.
- Then, what happened next shocked, angered, and confused him, which is a whole damn lot for a simple guy to be feeling all at once.
- ‘I was so disgusted that I deleted the damn e-mail before I read it,’ the Republican said.
- However, your second thought upon looking at the brochure was probably: ‘This looks like a damn good collection of productions!’
- The US has the best damn government money can buy.
- Why is it that every time the phone rings my dogs start making a damn racket so I can't hear what the heck is being said?
- All but two of the candidates have reasons to be damn frustrated.
- So whether another frustrated art lover finally snapped and tore down the damn cover themselves, I don't know.
- I spent another fifteen minutes looking for the damn socket slowly becoming more and more frustrated.
- It's silly, really, how attached I was to the damn thing, but most little kids do love animals to death, so I suppose it was only natural.
- I just wished that Damon would open the damn door and end her anger.
- Trent looked at me curiously as I had to control my anger and keep myself from breaking the damn phone.
- Sometimes letting the anger out, and not bottling it up inside feels damn good.
- This entire damn neighborhood is uphill, I thought.
- There's enough bad publicity about this damn silly event without you adding to it.
- You better be damn careful about using that word.
Phrases Used to express rejection of someone or something previously mentioned. Example sentencesExamples - Strategy be damned because we do not have secret proceedings in this country.
- However, there are times when I want to be able to enter a bar and have a highball and a ciggy, health concerns be damned.
- They'll look for some way to use the power of the state to their advantage, the truth be damned.
- We all know, directly or otherwise, how possible is it to get a great nightlife in the city and restrictions be damned.
- They then proceeded to rewrite the rules to suit their agenda, and the opposition be damned.
- Since we haven't, we go with what we've got and do the best we can as human beings, doctrine be damned.
- Pop punk past be damned, there's now no questioning the authenticity of Neko's C&W efforts.
- The best we can do is estimate the perceived goal of the campaign, rhetoric from the opposition be damned.
- Horizon-broadening be damned; for all its glaring faults and myriad irritations, I like it here.
- It doesn't matter if they have to lie and distort to do it, the goal is power, and ethics be damned.
Example sentencesExamples - What starts so modestly as a meditation on the pleasures of doing damn all has in its last movement the nerve and velocity of the gangster film at its purest and most primal.
- They let me have the run of the library and there's damn all else to do here.
- There's just damn all on worth listening to between 2 and 5.
- I haven't commented largely because, as anyone who reads my site will know, I know damn all about economics.
- UN approval has got damn all to do with the morality of the thing.
- I had thought that the second world war addiction was a peculiarly British phenomenon, a drug we reached for because we have achieved damn all as a nation ever since.
- Anyway, that's got damn all to do with anything.
- I've drifted about doing damn all this morning, gazing into space and half starting various things but finishing none.
- It would create a few jobs and relieve congestion and it would cost damn all.
- If the phantom virus does come here, there's damn all they can do about it anyway.
damn someone/something with faint praise Praise someone or something so unenthusiastically as to imply condemnation. Example sentencesExamples - In 1953, he damns Jaques with faint praise by referring to her as the ‘most skilful practitioner’ of ‘the doggerel school’.
- In truth, she damns her idols with faint praise.
- It was generally a good experience for him, but he damns his teachers with faint praise; they were adequate, but uninspiring.
- This is an interesting evening and that is not damning it with faint praise.
- So without wanting to damn Simon with faint praise by making that comparison, I don't believe that that's the issue.
- The student never quite got the point that the article damned Luther by faint praise.
- Black thinks it's their best work to date, though he admits this is damning it with faint praise.
- Not to damn him with faint praise, then, I'll also add that he is one of the more intelligent supporters of the war.
- I will admit the animation itself is nice, which is essentially my way of damning the film with faint praise.
- He opens by damning the piece with faint praise, calling it ‘well-intentioned,’ possessing ‘merits of its own.’
informal Have no value at all. Example sentencesExamples - Plus the heaters in all the planes were not worth a damn and you were cold an awful lot of times.
- You can invest in all the latest gadgets, have a sophisticated alarm system, etc. but they are not worth a damn if a simple task like locking a front door is not adhered to.
- He was very good at some things, but he wasn't worth a damn at high tech and new ventures.
- Disconcertingly, he replied: ‘It wasn't worth a damn.’
- He said, ‘The best story in the world is not worth a damn unless you can get it out.’
- As a neutral you'd have to feel sorry for Waterford but in real terms reaching another All-Ireland semi-final and losing it isn't worth a damn to them.
- If we don't take care of our own we really aren't worth a damn.
- He said there was an emerging consensus in the media that a press council with no statutory recognition ‘isn't worth a damn ‘, but that a press council imposed from government would be a bad thing.’
- There are tactics that work great when you're at the top of the hill that aren't worth a damn when you're at the bottom.
- On the riders who brought shame to his company, he added: ‘They are half-rotten mercenaries and their promises are not worth a damn.’
Synonyms jot, whit, iota, rap, scrap, bit
not give (or care) a damn informal Not care at all. people who don't give a damn about the environment
well I'll be (or I'm) damned informal Used as an expression of surprise. Example sentencesExamples - Well I'm damned; you are quite right.
- Well, I'll be damned! What in tarnation are you doing in these parts?
informal Used to emphasize a statement, especially when the speaker is angry. this is your mess and you can damn well clear it up! Example sentencesExamples - That they will buy and eat what they damn well please, and to hell with the consequences of it.
- If he wasn't a goalie in his youth, then he damn well should have been, and it's about time he started pulling his considerable weight.
- It's not a perfect solution, but it worked pretty damn well for the Soviet Union.
- Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time knows damn well that I am not PC.
- The people who sent him those letters should now damn well feel obliged to make amends.
- Remind the DJ or band that they work for you, and they'll damn well play anything you want.
- Why do we reach for the stars, knowing damn well that the stars are not ours to be had?
- Politicians know damn well that sometimes you need to shake the hand of the person you hate to get what you want.
- If he was bored with the idea of a wife, he could damn well refuse to marry.
- They damn well knew what they were facing, and the consequences fit the bill appropriately.
I'll be (or I'm) damned if informal Used to express a strong negative. I'll be damned if I'll call her Example sentencesExamples - Well you never know she may not be the criminal I think she is but I'll be damned if that's so.
- I'm sure when I started writing this there was going to be a point to it but I'm damned if I can remember what it is.
- But I'll be damned if I'm going to start viewing my blog like an English 101 project where I have to go back and correct anything that may take my grade down a bit.
- And I'm damned if I'm going to identify myself as a Scot - though some of my clan came from there and I do like that blue flag with the diagonal cross.
- This certainly is a pretty space, but I'll be damned if I can figure out if this is a renovation of their existing store at 178 Orchard Street, or a new place altogether.
- Having religiously turned out in all weathers, at every election in the last 44 years, I'm damned if I'm going to be subjected to a system that requires me to sign my ballot paper!
- We just will not slow down, we know the problem, we know the solution, but I'm damned if we will do anything about it.
- I left an irate comment on the blog, but it's obvious the blog owner doesn't come around all that much - and I'm damned if I can find an email link for her on the page anywhere.
- If anyone can suggest where I might have hidden them, do let me know, because I'm damned if I know.
- I already own more CDs than most other ‘regular’ people, and I'm damned if I'm gonna put up another shelf when the current one fills up.
Origin Middle English: from Old French dam(p)ner, from Latin dam(p)nare ‘inflict loss on’, from damnum ‘loss, damage’. |