The 17,250 occurrences of damn

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"Why not open the damn thing and see?"

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Damn all dancing butlers!

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"Damn it, I know you're going to look at my boots!"

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"I know what you would like to buy, though--and, damn it all, there's old Dreadnought Phipps down there--he's a bidder, too--ain't you, Phipps, old boy?

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Damn!

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"Your title and your social position aren't worth a damn to me.

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Unless you behave like a damn fool, you can reestablish some measure of control over her.

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"Damn the fellow!"

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"You don't care a damn about any one's sufferings," Wingate retorted, "so long as you can make money out of them."

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"Josephine," he cried, "I don't care a damn about your leaving my house, then or at any time, but the more I think of it, the stranger it seems to me that this friend of yours, Wingate, should come to the office and threaten me for my connection with the B.

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I begin to get the cold shoulder wherever I turn, but, damn it all, don't you understand that we must have money?"

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"You've been tampering with my servants, damn you!" he exclaimed.

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Damn you!"

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"Yes, damn you," cried someone, "and for our chattels, too."

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You are somewhat young indeed--but that's no objection.--Damn me, if the office can ever be so respectably filled as by an angry boy.

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"I'm going to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, damn me if I don't!

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"Well, the facts you know ain't worth a damn."

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And as for you, Jig, though I don't like to throw it in your face, as a schoolteacher you may be all right, but as a man you ain't worth a damn.

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A trout may be a flash of light in water, but on dry land he ain't worth a damn.

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"She, ladie, having well before approoved 465 The feends to be too cruell and severe, Observ'd th'appointed way, as her behooved, Ne ever did her eysight turne arere, Ne ever spake, ne cause of speaking mooved; But, cruell Orpheus, thou much crueller, 470 Seeking to kisse her, brok'st the gods decree, And thereby mad'st her ever damn'd to be.

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Angels and Ministers of Grace defend vs: [Sidenote: 32] Be thou a Spirit of health, or Goblin damn'd, Bring with thee ayres from Heauen, or blasts from Hell,[2] [Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto:--_ This heauy headed reueale east and west[3] Makes vs tradust, and taxed of other nations, They clip[4] vs drunkards, and with Swinish phrase Soyle our addition,[5] and indeede it takes From our atchieuements, though perform'd at height[6] The pith and marrow of our attribute, So oft it chaunces in particuler men,[7] That for some vicious mole[8] of nature in them As in their birth wherein they are not guilty,[8] (Since nature cannot choose his origin) By their ore-grow'th of some complextion[10] Oft breaking downe the pales and forts of reason Or by[11] some habit, that too much ore-leauens The forme of plausiue[12] manners, that[13] these men Carrying I say the stamp of one defect Being Natures liuery, or Fortunes starre,[14] His[15] vertues els[16] be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may vndergoe,[17] Shall in the generall censure[18] take corruption From that particuler fault:[19] the dram of eale[20] Doth all the noble substance of a doubt[21] To his[22] owne scandle.]

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Yet I, [Sidenote: faculties] A dull and muddy-metled[5] Rascall, peake Like Iohn a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause,[6] And can say nothing: No, not for a King, Vpon whose property,[7] and most deere life, A damn'd defeate[8] was made.

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I all: No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes, For in that dreame of death, when wee awake, [Sidenote: 24, 247, 260] And borne before an euerlasting Iudge, From whence no passenger euer retur'nd, The vndiscouered country, at whose sight The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd.

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It is not the sins they have done, but the sins they will not leave, that damn men.

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Vp Sword, and know thou a more horrid hent[3] When he is drunke asleepe: or in his Rage, Or in th'incestuous pleasure of his bed, At gaming, swearing, or about some acte [Sidenote: At game a swearing,] That ha's no rellish of Saluation in't, Then trip him,[4] that his heeles may kicke at Heauen, And that his Soule may be as damn'd and blacke As Hell, whereto it goes.

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Not this by no meanes that I bid you do: Let the blunt King tempt you againe to bed, [Sidenote: the blowt King] Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, And let him for a paire of reechie[9] kisses, Or padling in your necke with his damn'd Fingers, Make you to rauell all this matter out, [Sidenote: rouell] [Sidenote: 60, 136, 156] That I essentially am not in madnesse.

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[4] And is't not to be damn'd[5] To let this Canker of our nature come In further euill.

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_1st Q._ Then venome to thy venome, die damn'd villaine.]

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Twenty minutes later, two miles further on, one perspiring private turned to his panting chum, "For the love of God, Mike, aren't we getting in the near of this damn town yet?"

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The wretched gunners cluster on the gun, Clasping the clammy breech and slippery shells; If 'tis a joke they do not see the fun And damn you to the worst of DANTE'S hells.

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Damn it!

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Damn it!

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"Damn it, sir!" he flared out.

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"Damn 'f I don't."

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I can say this for Henry's religion: 'It's jest like Henry's wife,--it's the dearest thing to his heart; he'd give his life for it, but it don't do nobody a damn bit of good except jest Henry.'"

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They're funny damn things, niggers is; never know a care nor trouble.

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I didn't exactly understand the women's clothes business,--damn' fool disguise,--but we figgered it might pop into the head of a' edjucated nigger."

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Laureat who was both learn'd and florid, Was damn'd long since for silence horrid: Nor had there been such clutter made, But that his silence did invade.

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This play, Mr. Langbain tells us, was damned on the stage, or as the author expresses it in the epistle dedicatory, succeeded ill in the representation; but whether the fault was in the play itself, or in the lameness of the action, or in the numbers of its enemies, who came resolved to damn it for the title, he will not pretend any more than the author to determine.

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Dame Dobson, or the Cunning Woman, a Comedy; acted and damn'd at the duke's theatre, printed in quarto, 1684.

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there is still an old proverb to cross us, I found there no room for the sons of Parnassus; And therefore contented like others to fare, To the shades of Elizium I strait did repair; Where Dryden and other great wits o' the town, To reward all their labours, are damn'd to write on.

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A good many lives have been saved in this house, Mrs Patrick--I believe that's your name--and if there's any chance of bringing one more back from the dead, the fact that you own the house ain't goin' to make a damn bit of difference to me!

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HARRY: Damn nonsense.

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I'm saying--Oh damn.

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In one of his late satires, _The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_, he charged Addison with the inclination to-- "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer."

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In consequence, when the day of battle came, there was not a man in the corps who did not feel sure that if he shirked duty Stonewall Jackson would shoot him and God Almighty would damn him.

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Grumper's old pal, General Harringport, had confided to Dam himself in the smoking-room, one very late night, that since he was fifty years too old for hope of success in that direction he'd go solitary to his lonely grave (here a very wee hiccup), damn his eyes, so he would, unwed, unloved, uneverything.

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Thought _I_ was the biggest Damn here, I suppose," Trooper Peerson replied without looking up from his plate.

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Damn this giddiness--touch of sun, no doubt.

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"But, Padre, the devil doesn't need to come--we are sufficient to damn ourselves--" "It can't be explained any other way."

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V. curse, accurse † , imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction.

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curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.

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, ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize!, damn!, damn it!, damn you!, damn you to hell!, go to hell!, go to blazes!, confound!, blast!, curse!, devil take!, hang!, out with!, a plague upon!, out upon!, aroynt!

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look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate &c. 483 ; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at &c. (unimportance) 643 ; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas [Fr.]

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animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; hint a fault and hesitate dislike;" not to be able to say much for.

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damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]; another lie nailed to the counter; cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]; foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; soft-buzzing slander" [Thomson]; virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes" [Hamlet].

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V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit † .

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V. curse, accurse † , imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction.

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execrate, beshrew † , scold; anathematize &c (censure) 932; bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten &c 909. curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn.

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V. despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by &c (neglect) 460. look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate &c 483; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at &c (unimportance) 643; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, damn with faint praise [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas [Fr.]

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animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; hint a fault and hesitate dislike; not to be able to say much for.

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damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer [Pope]; another lie nailed to the counter; cut men's throats with whisperings [B. Jonson]; foul whisperings are abroad [Macbeth]; soft-buzzing slander [Thomson]; virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes [Hamlet].

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V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit † .

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- deterioration 659 N. - loss 776 N. - price 812 N. damages: - penalty 974 N. damascene: - variegation 440 V. damask: - redness 434 N. dame: - teacher 540 N. - nobility 875 N. - woman 374 N. dame's school: - school 542 N. damn it!

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damn with faint praise: - contempt 930 V. - disapprobation 932 V. damn you to hell!

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damn you!

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damn!

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damn: - malediction 908 V. - condemnation 971 V. damnable: - badness 649 Adj.

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And yet at the same time I know that my life wouldn't be worth a tinker's damn if I _did_ go down.

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A good feast-hound or banquet-beagle, that will scent you out a supper some three miles off, and swear to his patrons, damn him!

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He cares not (for no great advantage) to lose his friend, pine his body, damn his soul; and would despatch himself when corn falls, but that he is loth to cast away money on a cord.

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For as strong bodies may freely venture to do and suffer that, without any hurt to themselves, which would destroy those that are feeble, so a saint that is strong in grace may boldly engage himself in those great sins and iniquities that would easily damn a weak brother, and yet come off never the worse.

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He is always taking the name of his honour in vain, and will rather damn it like a knighthood of the post than want occasion to pawn it for every idle trifle, perhaps for more than it is worth, or any man will give to redeem it; and in this he deals uprightly, though perhaps in nothing else.

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These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.

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"Damn you!" raged Mad Jack to the quarter-masters; "hard down-- hard _down_, I say, and be damned to you!"

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Damn me, but these coltings puts the tin in the Purser's pocket.

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Damn me, White-Jacket, I wouldn't call my dog Peter!"

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When you see a fellow yawning about the docks like a homeward-bound Indiaman, a long Commodore's pennant of black ribbon flying from his mast- head, and fetching up at a grog-shop with a slew of his hull, as if an Admiral were coming alongside a three-decker in his barge; you may put that man down for what man-of-war's-men call a _damn- my-eyes-tar_, that is, a humbug.

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And many damn-my-eyes hum-bugs there are in this man-of-war world of ours.

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Damn you, you Jonah!

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"Damn you!

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Damn it all!--what a brute I am.

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F.G. Hubbard said, "It's a damn shame; if I was chief I would have them out of town in 24 hours."

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No, they won't gobble _me_ up, but they'll come damn nigh it.

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An' be mighty damn quick about it, or I'll hang you, too."

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Black Tom _was_ coming, coming surer and unless that flag, that "Rebel rag," were hauled down under twenty-four hours, Black Tom would come over and pull it down, and to that same poplar hang "Captain Mayhall an' his whole damn army."

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"Damn them," Fairfax muttered.

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"This old man, he is damn crazy," he said in English to the square-browed man.

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His Highness thinks it a damn-fool road.

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"Damn the torpedoes," said he.

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The little hypocrite, who knows not a soul in this town, [I thought I was sure of her at any time,] such an unexperienced traitress--giving me hope too, in her first billet, that her expectation of the family- reconciliation would withhold her from taking such a step as this--curse upon her contrivances!--I thought, that it was owing to her bashfulness, to her modesty, that, after a few innocent freedoms, she could not look me in the face; when, all the while, she was impudently [yes, I say, impudently, though she be Clarissa Harlowe] contriving to rob me of the dearest property I had ever purchased--purchased by a painful servitude of many months; fighting through the wild-beasts of her family for her, and combating with a wind-mill virtue, which hath cost me millions of perjuries only to attempt; and which now, with its damn'd air-fans, has tost me a mile and a half beyond hope!--And this, just as I had arrived within view of the consummation of all my wishes!

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