damned

"You've got me beat between you, the cards are stacked against me, I've done my damndest—" and indeed that was true.

For a fact, I smelt azaleas plain and sweet once; and woke up in the damndest alkali desert you ever see.

That's right; you do your damndest—'angels can do no more,' as the feller said.

It's going to be ten miles, across country, across the damndest country you ever saw, Sledge Hume!