dad-blamed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of dad-blamed
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Said he: "I have had so dad-blamed many stories tossed at me, I've just about lost my faith in people."
From Time Magazine Archive
All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, you dad-blamed old long-horned turtle-dove, the boys in camp was all cognoscious about them hiroglyphs.
From Heart of the West [Annotated] by Joseph E. Loewenstein
It's a dad-blamed shame that the courts don't take a han' in the matter.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
Martha was standing there on bare ground, and there wasn't a dad-blamed thing else, not a stove, nor a chair, a dish, nothing.
From Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton
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