dern
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“The dern thing sold one million records,” Haymes said, chuckling.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2016
But it’s time we stopped being so dern polite.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2013
But looking dern and being it are entirely different things.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Love swung around, her hands clenched, face red, those gray-blue eyes hard as steel, and the fanciest gosh dern words coming out of that big mouth you ever heard.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“Why do you let kids make fun of you and don’t do one dern thing about it?”
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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