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"When I'm reading it is the same damn thing.

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Quick take

something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of damn gathered in one view.

noun

something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"

verb

wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"

adjective

used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for damn.

noun

something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"

verb

wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"

adjective

used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!"

adjective

expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

adverb

extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"

Example sentences

"When I'm reading it is the same damn thing.

Sending them to Harvard isn't going to make a damn bit of difference.

Contact them and tell that you're a voter in their area, and you are damn proud of what they are doing.

You took a $30-$40K pay cut to take the damn job - the food isn't worth a tenth of that + you're now working during lunch hours!

Build your own web page with your own damn profile and don't leave control over a company on how you look on the web.

Perhaps this wasn't the optimal exit for the Picnik team, but it was pretty damn good.-mike harrington

Just an easy way to drop your salary and indoctrinate you - scratch that - it's a god damn uniform - freedom be damned!

I had one project where the damn process used so much ram per request they had to go buy an Azul box just to make it run even at 2 req/sec.

Learning to program is really damn valuable, especially in fields where most people don't know any programming.

This is one of those cases where I'm not a bit jealous because something so obvious or inane or dumb took off and became Twitter, but because it's just so damn fantastic.

Hey, I know those things get damn uncomfortable, ladies, but it also gets uncomfortable sitting through a meeting for two hours, crossing and uncrossing my legs to give my dick some space to not be a total pain just for existing between my legs.

As someone who makes much of his living rehabilitating old perl scripts, please, if you must use such things, use them like this:[ -~] #match only printable charactersIt takes 5 seconds longer and with regexes, just knowing what the damn thing is trying to do is half the battle.

Probably $10k worth of code, and $39,990,000 worth of strategizing, consulting, Powerpoint presentations, and general hand-wringing about the "death of the news industry".All I know is, if I'd spent $40mil on a paywall, I'd be damn sure it was written to filter on the server-side, not with a client-blockable overlay like they have supposedly implemented.