Word info

damned well

Adverb

Meaning

damned well (not comparable)

Alternative form of damn well

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. George V of the United Kingdom

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. Lois McMaster Bujold

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones. Kevin J. Anderson

[T]hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? ... Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it! Howard Cosell

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. P. J. O'Rourke

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. Lois McMaster Bujold

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