[ UK /djˈuːst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. expletives used informally as intensifiers
    not a blessed dime
    it's a blamed shame
    he's a blasted idiot
    he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool
    a deuced idiot
    an infernal nuisance
    a blame cold winter
    I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing
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How To Use deuced In A Sentence

  • Apart from being deucedly risky and explaining a great deal about the driving in Turkey, it's also an exact parallel of quantum mechanics.
  • 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
  • What the deuced blazes are they playing at in ‘Neighbours’?
  • '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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • You're not always so deuced careful of appearances.
  • But as to study – I must own to you, I hate it most deucedly. Camilla
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