as in freaking
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
this damnable couch is falling apart
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Recent Examples of damnable
Taken together, the two drove home a damnable fact about America in 2022: That virulent pus coursing through the souls of Mississippi racists in 1955 still flows and has been reconstituted in the despicable figure of Donald J. Trump and the people who follow him.
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Keith L. Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 17 Nov. 2022
Wordle two steps faster than the damnable robot.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
The damnable words of some philosopher then consider the many facets of your demise by shotgun blast.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 10 Dec. 2022
The movie probes that damnable casual attitude about having co-equal political influence.
—Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2022
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Keith L. Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 17 Nov. 2022
Wordle two steps faster than the damnable robot.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
The damnable words of some philosopher then consider the many facets of your demise by shotgun blast.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 10 Dec. 2022
The movie probes that damnable casual attitude about having co-equal political influence.
—Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for damnable
Adjective
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As mentor to a nascent entrepreneur and future president, Strong gave us a cursed Roy Cohn who grew more shocked about his apprentice.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Image ‘The Monkey’ After a cursed toy monkey from his childhood reappears, a man (Theo James) tries to stop it in this horror comedy directed by Osgood Perkins.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Skinner had a terrible time of it for much of the season.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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What is disconcerting is when campaign donors and friends & family have commuted sentences after they have been legally convicted of terrible financial crimes.—
Sanjeev Menon,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Players who are in strong lineups on teams prone to having awful lineups on the floor in the same games are prone to having skewed impact numbers.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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And the awful topper came in his Arizona Fall League debut, where the Thomas Jefferson High School product was torched by some of baseball’s best prospects and didn’t make it out of the first inning.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With a wink and a knowing smile, Hermes (Sarah Taylor) guides the audience through a realm of stark contrasts, from the ominous storms of the world above to the infernal heat of Hadestown.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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An infernal barrage of blazes continues to ravage the Los Angeles metropolitan region, where the death toll has now risen to at least 10 individuals.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.—
Allen Farmelo,
Robb Report,
6 Dec. 2024
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When the moment of triumph finally arrived, with a blasted inside-in forehand to the postage stamp corner of the court, Djokovic, 37, crouched to his knees and immediately succumbed to the first set of tears.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
4 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.—
Keaton Patti,
The New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2019
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The others have tried to forget all about it, and have managed to put some distance between themselves and their accursed hometown.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Then, the rotten cherry on top: my lightweight pack, overburdened with water and ill-equipped for the task, created a patch of chafe that eventually bloomed into an open wound.—
Shawnté Salabert,
Outside Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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What rotten fortune all around, the best college player in the country – and the coolest – being ousted not by an upset but by injury.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Damnable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damnable. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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