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damn well

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  1. Also, damned well. Certainly, without doubt; emphatically. For example, You damn well better improve your grades, or I know damned well that he's leaving me out. The damn in this phrase is mainly an intensifier.


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“If you make a promise, you should keep it, and if you promise women you’re going to help them, then you damn well better do it,” Ms. Mace said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

“If someone was going to ask tough questions and have that messy conversation, that damn well should be on CNN,” he said in a recording of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

And that, apparently, was when she decided that if you can only barely beat them, you'd damn well better join them.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2021

Cancer is one of those things that organisms evolved to be able to deal with and suppress pretty damn well.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2021

“Well then. But I mean, the whole war could be damn well over soon, beg pardon, and my boys would have missed it. And these are Virginians, sir, and have a certain pride.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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