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dad-blamed

American  
[dad-bleymd] / ˈdædˈbleɪmd /

adjective

  1. damned (used as a euphemism in expressions of surprise, disgust, anger, etc.).

    The dad-blamed car got stuck in a snowdrift. He's so dad-blamed sure of himself.


Etymology

Origin of dad-blamed

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Loewenstein, Joseph E.

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 Clifton, Mark

They can reform or not, as they dad-blamed please.

From The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon by Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)

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