damfool
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of damfool
1880–85; alteration of damned fool or foolish
Example Sentences
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"Biggest damfool mistake I ever made," Dwight Eisenhower said privately some years after appointing him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Or was it all a damfool kid joke?
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
Hees ask more damfool question een ten minute dan a man hees answer een t'ree day.
From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
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