deuced
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Origin of deuced
Example Sentences
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Only the other day the Prime Minister himself said, 'Talbot, you're becoming a deuced bore about that voyage of yours.'
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a good thing,—a deuced good thing! and I promise you, if I were a marrying man, you 'd have a competitor.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
How deuced mean John was from first to last!
From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary
I feel I haven't explained properly how sorry I am, but it's so deuced hard in a letter.
From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton
"A deuced pretty waltzer!" said St. Lys, of the Bays; "turn her round in a square foot."
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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