as in freaking
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
this damnable couch is falling apart
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Recent Examples of damnable
Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling, as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for damnable
Adjective
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The cursed son of a king, born half-bull and half-man.—
John Wiswell,
People.com,
3 July 2025
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Eight is a cursed number, and this is the eighth day of madness.—
Fatemeh Shams
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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Vegas bounced back from a terrible loss to the Fever with an 86-68 win over the Sun on Sunday.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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And because of that, it’s shielded us from the terrible things that happen downstream in the supply chain.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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However, the idea that Gunn was going to make an awful Superman movie does not match up with his history of comic book productions across Marvel and DC.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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On Wednesday, New York HUT levels were up nearly 10% compared to the previous week, when the air didn’t feel (and smell) like some sort of infernal fish chowder.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
27 June 2025
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Climbing 18,000 feet, through knee-deep snow in some years, and descending more than 23,000 feet into infernal canyons with temps bubbling up to 120 degrees, WSER isn’t a feat for mere mortals.—
Miriam Schwartz,
Boston Herald,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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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
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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The odor comes from a toxic gas that’s colorless and smells like rotten eggs.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2025
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If the weather’s rotten, the show simply moves inside to the main USJ auditorium.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
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