deucedly
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of deucedly
Example Sentences
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Some people thought it was terrible and required discipline, others that it was deucedly clever and should be laughed off.
From Time Magazine Archive
What follows is a seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of age in an age deucedly difficult to understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
“It’s most important. You will put me in a deucedly awkward position if you don’t.”
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
And when Turner walked in just at the stroke of seven o’clock, it was even more deucedly awkward.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
My dear Eichhof, you are in a deucedly morbid, sentimental mood to-day, and farewells are scarcely propitious to the cure of such maladies.
From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach
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