damfool
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of damfool
1880–85; alteration of damned fool or foolish
Example Sentences
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Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice, reportedly described the appointment years afterward as the "biggest damfool mistake I ever made."
From Time Magazine Archive
Many who follow the macroscopic Explorations of George Burton are likely in the end to go scudding off with Economist Schwartz to the snugger valleys of the damfool wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Biggest damfool mistake I ever made," Dwight Eisenhower said privately some years after appointing him.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They would have a right to call for their time if I asked them to do some damfool thing like sitting in this shack with the wind blowing through it at forty miles an hour.”
From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto
Do you think I'm going to give you up now—now, after I've won you—because of a damfool scruple in your pretty head?
From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by Wolfe, George Ellis
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