durn
Americanadjective
interjection
Etymology
Origin of durn
Respelling to reflect regional pronunciation
Example Sentences
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“We’re going to find somewhere to practice, find somewhere that can accommodate every durn thing that we need and desire to be who we desire to be, and that’s dominate,” Sanders said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022
He says things like “That’s when the Kabram boy just got out there and spilled the durn beans,” and also talks of “proleptic decay and decrepitude.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2017
Dr. Carson will perhaps have a few tricks up his sleeve that will bring us the best durn Department of Housing and Urban Development we could possibly dream of.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2017
As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked stand-in of its bad men, he durn near runs away with the show.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I said to Lloyd, “It’s a durn good thing we got past the graveyard in daylight.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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