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English
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Etymology
damned + -est
Adjective
damnedest
- superlative form of damned: most damned; surprising, remarkable, amazing.
1900, Phillip Gardner, Someone to Crawl Back to, page 107:"And the damnedest thing happened. I was dreaming, but in my dream I was dreaming. It was the damnedest thing, really."
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Noun
damnedest (uncountable)
- One's best effort.
1991, Cathy Cash Spellman, Paint the Wind, page 148:"Fancy was doing her damnedest to pull her own oar and the boys were tripping all over themselves to treat her like a lady."
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Verb
damnedest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of damn
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