How To Use Deuce In A Sentence

deucedly clever
You must be referring to yourself as a progressive in order to mock progressives, deucedly clever of you. Think Progress » Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ Senate To Get ‘Its Head Out Of Its Rear End’ And Confront Climate Crisis
I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable. ON A WILD NIGHT
If a joker or deuce is discarded, it is placed crosswise on the discard pile so that it remains visible when other cards are discarded on top of it.
Extending it out to 30 or even 50 or so light years which would then include nearest giants, Pollux - & its exoplanet "Polydeuces" (34 ly) Capella (42 ly)plus other sun-like F & G type dwarfs would be fantastic. 32 Nearby Stars

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Federer was in the sort of form which took him to the Wimbledon title this year, with Blake staving off an amazing 19 out of 20 break-point opportunities, and surviving 10 deuces in one service game.
I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway? The Sky Writer
He's a classic winner, the very deuce of a top-notcher. Grey Town An Australian Story
The rudeness of its personnel is legendary, yet it seems perversely proud to be the Fawlty Towers of English cricket, where everything would be fine if it wasn't for the deuced public wanting to watch cricket there.
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night az writed an ringinlee rekorded by teh boss, Mr. Springsteen awn teh Greetings From Asbury Park album. Wen U brite az meh, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The deuce ! I've lost my keys!
Deuce managed to keep a wry grimace from his face, just barely.
In the sequence of the third image, I think it's instead visible Polydeuces and Dione and Titan, of course. Cassini the Artist: Shadows, Ringshine, Double Crescent Moons | Universe Today
They had a match point in the semi-final against the Cantrells, but Burdett served a double fault on the sudden-death second deuce in which this point is decisive under the rules of the competition designed to prevent drawn-out matches.
Murray comes back from 0-30 to 40-30 but is taken to deuce when Nishikori disguise lobs the disguise lobber. Andy Murray v Kei Nishikori – live! | Steve Busfield
Capriati had chances to break the Myskina serve in a long fifth game, but failed to do so and paid the price in the next game when Myskina made the vital breakthrough after a sequence of deuces.
That editorial judgment is not infallible is hardly news, but by the same token seeking to make editorial judgment actionable in a court of law is news ... and deucedly troublesome news at that. Ivan Katz: The Court Room Instead of the Concert Hall?
I believe that happens during a deuce when the server has just won a point, and if he or she wins the next point the game is theirs.
But to point out the faults of this composition would be absurd indeed, for they are innumerable and glaring, and the deuce is in it, if Mr. Beddoes does not wonder at himself and his play, before he is three-and-twenty. Review
Some players play with only one joker, but use the deuce of spades as permanent second highest trump in the game.
Bouncing Bounce Deuce and creating a sparse, white brick walled space outfitted with park bench-style booths, large U-shaped leather banquettes, and Calder-esque hanging fixtures, Van's specializing in Northern Euro beers, infused akvavit, and Genever-aided cocktails like the lemon/bitters/roobis-infused vermouth B Side Sling. Thrillist: Vandaag: Northern European Eats
What the deuce are you doing here, gracing our quiet backwater? DEVIL'S BRIDE
After a time, the doctor had me removed from the backboard (which is a deucedly painful thing to be strapped to, in case you ever have the dubious privilege), carted downstairs for x-rays, and finally, blessedly, sent home.
Who the deuce was the queer-looking _cawker_?" we all at once inquired of Crony. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
The Legal Tender deuces have always held a special attraction to collectors.
Polydeuces" was first detected in 1993, but was not confirmed until June 16, 2006. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
'Twas I that saved her and snatched her from beneath thy sword at the bidding of her father Zeus; for she his child must put on immortality, and take her place with Castor and Polydeuces in the bosom of the sky, a saviour to mariners. Orestes
Deuces tied the riata off and in the gathering darkness dropped to his hands and knees to measure the width between his scalp and the soil. Deuces Wild
Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong. Isabelle
Well, what the deuce are you waiting for, old boy?
The scenes in the subterranean offices of the Admiralty are remarkably subdued; the war seems to be a deuced spot of bother bound to blow over any day now, but damned unpleasant in the clinch, eh?
The early twentieth century had witnessed significant technological innovation in northern mines, particularly in the implementation of labor-saving deuces such as mechanical cutters and loaders.
The fetid stink combined with the pain immediately began to make Deuce feel sick to his stomach, and on several counts he almost retched up the good pheasant meal he'd taken earlier.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. May I Be Excused? My Brain Is Full.
All of the deuces and jokers are wild cards.
Joker has no value at the finish, and deuce has only pip value.
‘Five Card Draw, deuces wild,’ David announced, deftly dealing out the cards.
Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity.
Deuceace handed back the letter; sneared, and poohd, and hinted that such an invitation was an insult at best (what he called a pees ally); and, the ladies might depend upon it, was only sent because Lady Bobtail wanted to fill up two spare places at her table. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
In some games certain cards are wild - either the deuces or a joker added to the deck - and in some games there is a cumulative jackpot which is won by a high hand such as a royal flush.
This deuce can represent any card value 7-10 in the diamond suit only.
In this version, both deuces of Clubs are removed from the combined cards.
From deuce, she won the next two points with deep, unreturnable second serves. Times, Sunday Times
Schnyder, serving for the match at 6-5, trailed 0-40 but held her serve after three deuces.
It's a deuced bit better than becoming a sulking musical conservative, sneering at anything after middle-period Beethoven.
Mr. Bowyer, however, he had so implicit a confix deuce in the punctuality of his friend, a» never to require a voucher. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
What Kallatra did with Deuce's crystalloid resonators was a pallid approximation. The Dragon Lensman
They are hard to manage because they are deucedly clever and lazy at the same time. The Last Empress
The dealer gave her a deuce and she jumped from fifth place to second place and earned $22,000 in doing so.
We, the twin sons of Zeus, thy mother's sisters, call thee, even Castor and his brother Polydeuces. Electra
Is it 30 all, deuce, advantage to them or set point to me?
Likewise, if a good player with deuces showing is calling a bet by a pair of Kings, chances are good that the deuces won't lose because Aces over deuces or rolled up deuces are likely.
Tupac was a great rhymer but even he couldn't make all those characters voices and not make it cheesy and besides, its meant to be cheesy obviously. deuce its been done to death. /wrist. VOTD: Star Wars Gangsta Rap Chronicles | /Film
You want an ace for three hands, you'll get it when your straight needs a deuce. THE ONLY GAME
Women, you see — in certain matters, they have a deucedly keen intuition — The Master Builder
But reach it they did; once again, Myoga held the door open for his wobbly guest, and Deuce stepped inside the lavish room.
What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out? The Newcomes
No. We want a-- er -- what the deuce is it they call the functionary, Cassius? A House-Boat on the Styx
Why in the deuce was she not carroty-haired, or cross-eyed, or hare-lipped? Chapter 13
A wayward - nay - shocking forehand goes miles wild as Monfils squanders two break points before Murray levels at deuce with a 210-km ripsnorter of a serve. BBC News - Home
It was deucedly unpleasant, he decided, this being peppered at; and nonsensical as it really was, it was none the less deadly serious. Chapter 27
The high-low deuces were introduced, and the multiple scoring (where strikes were counted apart from points) was devised.
If other juvenile comedies are sophomoric, Deuce is junior high at best.
Some players play with both jokers and with the deuce of spades as the third highest trump in the game.
This ironically includes pottery representing what you simply call "Greek deities", Etruscan Pultuce 'Polydeuces' (ET Pe S.13) and Castur 'Castor' (ET AH S.7, OI G.29, Pe S.13, Vs S.21). What are Etruscans doing with those eggs?
Ay, ay, Jemmy," said he, "'tis easy for you to bid me get on, but how the deuce can I make Rob Roy's wife speak, with such a _curmurring_ in my guts? Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
The high-low deuces were introduced, and the multiple scoring (where strikes were counted apart from points) was devised.
I've got the deuce of a headache.
Let's say everybody is dealt a bunch of small cards and the dealer has a deuce up.
But see, you never knew, because deuces became treys in the outer boroughs.
And the Caroline C----- (who the deuce is she that writes such a scratchy, illegible hand?) sends her love to Mrs. Carlyle, and proposes to 'talk to her about Amisfield and Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
I took a vicious beat at the end of the night, when my ace-high diamond flush got beat by Jacks full of deuces, my fault: the board was J-2-x-x-2, and I was so happy to make the flush I didn't think about the possible full house . . . even if the deuce was the only card that could both make my hand and beat me but I still left $24 ahead. WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: October 2004 Archives
Let's say everybody is dealt a bunch of small cards and the dealer has a deuce up.
Then I made a fatal discovery - it is deucedly hard to throw the game, when the side rails are set up.
Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and all the rest must be feeling deucedly uncomfortable watching this scene, and the scene surrounding it - mighty opposites and all that.
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the deuce with it
Murray comes back from 0-30 to 40-30 but is taken to deuce when Nishikori disguise lobs the disguise lobber. Andy Murray v Kei Nishikori – live! | Steve Busfield
The terrier, he knew, had crossed the road, and there was something about this particular reach of metalling that tempted motorists to pass at the deuce of a pace. Anthony Lyveden
Apart from being deucedly risky and explaining a great deal about the driving in Turkey, it's also an exact parallel of quantum mechanics.
a deuced idiot
Englishmen and matrons, and thrill societies with their winsome ingenuousness; and who sometimes when unguarded meet an artful serenader, that is a cloaked bandit, and is provoked by their performances, and knows anthropologically the nature behind the devious show; a sciential rascal; as little to be excluded from our modern circles as Eve's own old deuce from Eden's garden whereupon, opportunity inviting, both the fool and the cunning, the pure donkey princess of insular eulogy, and the sham one, are in a perilous pass. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
After the deuces are picked up, there is one more round of betting, then it's time for the surviving players to show their cards.
Shaking his head, Deuce ushered the boy and the woman into the closest inn he could find and trust-one he'd stayed in before and knew wouldn't bilk him of his money or send stable boys in the middle of the night to rifle through his purse.
Surprisingly, there is no recorded conversation along the lines of: ‘Who the deuce sent her that piano?
This can only be bid by the dealer, and is only allowed if the dealer holds the ace, king and deuce of trumps.
Henman races to three set points but Udomchoke gets a stay of execution as the Briton lets slip his advantage for deuce.
So he incorrectly stood with 12 against a deuce believing that the next card out of the shoe was more likely to be a 10 than the one after it.
What the deuce moved him to be so snappish and depravedly bent against the good fathers of the true religion? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Now give it to-to - [stamps his foot] — what the deuce is her name? — give it to the maid, and tell her to take it at once to the Mayor. An Enemy of the People
I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable. ON A WILD NIGHT
I looked down to find a useless deuce as my stranger and fired a bet out there, while positively holding the worst hand (still a pair of queens).
And who the deuce is Mr. Edgar Percival Clerimont? Introduction
Fight between Polydeuces and Amycus, King of the Bebrycians; defeat and death of Amycus (1 – 97). — The Argonautica
But what the deuce is all this?" demanded the other. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
August 3, 2008 at 12:04 pm nawt just fast, she be deucedly clebber also. Radioactive kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
I'm back and now you can ask me: What the deuce is Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo, anyway?
If football thought that its governance is overly complex which it undoubtedly is, then the internal friction between the players and tournament officials who make up the ATP, the conflicts with the regulating International Tennis Federation and the immutably autonomous grand slams really are the deuce. Bristol City's hopes of new stadium threatened by parish council
He told us that twenty chance devils very much feared in our country dwelt there in six different storeys, and that the biggest twins or braces of them were called sixes, and the smallest ambs-ace; the rest cinques, quatres, treys, and deuces. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It was deuced curt, it seemed to him, and veiled a sort of suggested laughter, if there was anything insinuative in polite phrases. Guns of the Gods
Joker can't be used, and deuce can only be used as pip value.
But as to study – I must own to you, I hate it most deucedly. Camilla
Betting big with a pair of deuces in Texas Hold 'Em could lead to a third deuce and a win on ‘the river.’
Far from being an example of radiant perfection handing down instructions from Mount Sinai about how we should lead our moral lives, Zeus is the embodiment of raunchy behavior, seducing the mortal Alcmena, for example, by pretending to be her husband (thus producing Hercules), and raping Leda in the shape of a swan (thus producing Helen and Polydeuces) -- even having a brief fling with his gay torchbearer, Ganymede. Robert Brustein: Monotonous Monotheism
This can only be bid by the dealer, and is only allowed if the dealer holds the ace, king and deuce of trumps.
If anyone goes out of cards during ‘the Count’, the game continues until someone is unable to play a deuce or an ace, and draws their cards.
Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity.
You're not always so deuced careful of appearances.
In 49th Parallel, who knows what the deuce he is doing, other than turning in what I believe to be the only bad performance in any Powell and Pressburger film.
Contra Archdeacon Smiter, I'm glad Waldstein didn't go on for a few hundred more pages about J.P. Deuce's patristic sources. Archive 2009-03-01
The score had sunk to forty-love and she'd fought back to deuce. A MEANS TO EVIL
It was the fourth day, and I was lounging in the camp's little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camels know the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer, when Kutebar came in a great bustle to take me to Yakub Beg at once. The Sky Writer
The deuce of each suit is called the sow (die Sau).
In a whisk a frosty mug nearly slopping over with the golden drink was in front of Deuce.
In some games certain cards are wild - either the deuces or a joker added to the deck - and in some games there is a cumulative jackpot which is won by a high hand such as a royal flush.
You know I go to bed every night at 9: 30 and hate like the deuce to get up at 5: 30, though I expect I am getting fat.
And when you feel so extremely a fool and a bad golfer to boot, what the deuce can you do, except throw the club away?
He looked down the aisle as if praying one of the units would sprout legs and arms, clamber down from the shelf, waddle over and say I'm the one, old chap; deucedly simple, and handsome to boot.
The deuce of clubs starts - the holder leads it to the first trick.
To every twelve-year-old with a deucey-deuce and a packa jimmies. SPIDERTOWN
Street gang the Deuces are feuding with their drug-dealing rivals the Vipers.
Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity.
At other times, it's always deuces when they aren't wild.
But see, you never knew, because deuces became treys in the outer boroughs.
The gap was still one hole at the turn, after a brace of deuces at the short ninth from Westwood and Haas.
the deuce with it
We know very little about Vargas non-actor Argentino Vargas is an Argentine day laborer, apart from the fact that he has been locked away for decades and that he is deucedly deft with a machete, at one point pulling into his boat a stray goat that he butchers quicker than you could withdraw $30 from an ATM. The woods are lovely, dark and deep
The same barmaid that had served Deuce, asking if the other two occupants of the table wanted a drink, interrupted any reply Epoxie could have made.
Sure enough, I handed over a twenty and said "two please", back came three fresh Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond deuces.
“How the deuce should I know? or what do I care?” cries the young artist, stamping the heel of his blucher on the pavement. The Newcomes
That editorial judgment is not infallible is hardly news, but by the same token seeking to make editorial judgment actionable in a court of law is news... and deucedly troublesome news at that. Ivan Katz: The Court Room Instead of the Concert Hall?
The gap was still one hole at the turn, after a brace of deuces at the short ninth from Westwood and Haas.
Besides that, for the skeptical modern reader, or even for most Christians, it is more important to outline what assumptions underlie modern thought and how J.P. Deuce has answered, used, or rejected those assumptions, rather than to show how he has used patristic sources, which the skeptical modern reader, and even some Christians, won't care much about. Archive 2009-03-01
A bale of bard cinque deuces; a bale of flat cinque deuces; a bale of flat size aces; a bale of bard cater treys; a bale of flat cater treys; a bale of Fulhams; a bale of light graniers; a bale of gordes, with as many highmen and lowmen for passage; a bale of demies; a bale of long dice for even or odd; a bale of bristles; a bale of direct contraries, -- names of false dice. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
'Oh, Plummey!' exclaimed Mr. Puffington, as his servant entered, 'I'm deuced unwell -- quite knocked up, in short,' clapping his hand on his forehead, adding, 'I shall not be able to dine downstairs to-day.' Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
What the deuced blazes are they playing at in ‘Neighbours’?
It is like an endless, exhausting game of tennis, deuce after deuce.
In mixed doubles, the serve is always gender to gender at deuce (three points each). USATODAY.com - World TeamTennis shakes up status quo
At first he called the doings of the place dishonest; then he called them sharp practice; then he called them a little shady; then, close sailing; then he said this or that transaction was deuced clever; then, the man was more rogue than fool; then he laughed at the success of a vile trick; then he touched the pitch, and thinking all the time it was but with one finger, was presently besmeared all over -- as was natural, for he who will touch is already smeared. The Elect Lady
'After all,' said Darwin the other day, 'what the deuce is Carlyle's religion, or has he any?' Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

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