as in freaking
deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure
this damnable couch is falling apart
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Recent Examples of damnable
The movie probes that damnable casual attitude about having co-equal political influence.
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2022
That painful, damnable stand-off should be crucial to Branagh’s recall.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
No ensembles have struggled more mightily during the pandemic than choruses, as singers are inevitable spewers of the damnable coronavirus.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
Or maybe Alice from accounting is using her AirPods but hasn’t turned off her Mac’s internal microphone, causing that damnable echo.
—Tom Gillis, Forbes, 22 June 2021
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2022
That painful, damnable stand-off should be crucial to Branagh’s recall.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
No ensembles have struggled more mightily during the pandemic than choruses, as singers are inevitable spewers of the damnable coronavirus.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
Or maybe Alice from accounting is using her AirPods but hasn’t turned off her Mac’s internal microphone, causing that damnable echo.
—Tom Gillis, Forbes, 22 June 2021
See all Example Sentences for damnable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damnable
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There are not only graphic battles of intense color and design but also psychedelic trips, including a trippy one inside the cursed realm of warrior god Hoenir’s head.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2024
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The cursed man is William Hickman, a merchant who lived there with his family beginning in 1596.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile Kelly Oubre, who was terrible with the Warriors, has found success with Philadelphia.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Elsbeth and Kaya are suspicious of Roselyn, even after Valentina’s quick assessment — supported by the medical examiner — that Claude’s death was a terrible accident.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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For the evening, the stews break out their coral dresses instead of blacks which are pretty awful.Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Jean Dujardin, the French actor who won an Academy Award for that awful silent-movie spoof The Artist, is almost unrecognizable in On the Wandering Paths (Sur les chemins noirs).Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
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Christ and his angels battled for your salvation, while the Devil and his many demonic spirits sought to trick and tempt, to pull you into their infernal kingdom.James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world.John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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Second, no one is offering to rebuild the blasted towns and villages of southern Lebanon when this is over, the way the oil-rich Gulf States did after the last major war with Israel, in 2006.Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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As in the video game, which starts characters off in a kind of blasted heath, the surroundings are visually competent but forgettable.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
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The others have tried to forget all about it, and have managed to put some distance between themselves and their accursed hometown.New York Times, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
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At least Kristi and Mari could be there to keep an eye on her, instead of just letting her fend for herself near all that juicy, rotten produce.Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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The big picture: The city's Solid Waste Management Department will accept rotten jack-o'-lantern carcasses and other pumpkin remnants today through Dec. 6 — a longer window than in past years.Shafaq Patel, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Damnable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damnable. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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