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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But I view where we are as five-alarm fire, and if you got a microphone in front of your mouth, you better damn well be talking into it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

“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

“So they figured that they could do whatever they damn well please as long as they paid money for protection.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

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

Finally my frustration and anger had an object: If I couldn’t make my dead grandfather give up his secrets, I would damn well pry the secrets out of this old trunk.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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