dratted
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of dratted
Example Sentences
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Not sure how I actually managed to get the dratted thing down.
From Literature
“Dratted antiaircraft guns in Angers. The tail’s been hit. I think it was flak, not a night fighter, or we’d be dead. We don’t stand a chance against a Messerschmitt 110.”
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Was also developing a splitting headache, anxious about Julie, and wondering why they didn’t just set the dratted plane on fire and get it over with.
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I am still unbelievably sore—not from the crash but from holding the dratted plane in level flight all during that final hour.
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I lay awake in a funk nearly all night with Paul’s dratted gun in my hand, my ear pressed to the trapdoor listening, expecting him to come back and try again under cover of darkness.
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