damn well

Idioms

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.

Example Sentences

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To paraphrase the delegate’s argument, she was going to do her part to encourage people to vote whenever she damn well pleased, and was disinclined to submit to scripted choreography dictated by some whippersnapper.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024

“Pinoe’s somebody that was like, ‘I’m going to stop when I damn well please.’

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

“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

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

I dragged him toward my room, him shouting how this better be good, how the house damn well better be on fire, and Snout barking like we were on a dove shoot.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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