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• v  repair by sewing
• s  expletives used informally as intensifiers
  I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing

• While they were happening, the '80s seemed so darned healthy.
• The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam.
• When 31-year-old American reporter Bernard Krisher arrived in Tokyo in 1962, many people said he was too brash, too much of a New Yorker, too darned pushy to get along in decorous .

• darn
• blasted
• blame
• blamed
• blessed
• damn
• damned
• deuced
• goddam
• goddamn
• goddamned
• infernal

News & Articles

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• Bill Cunningham | Darned if They Do
  Watch Bill Cunningham | Darned if They Do video online. News and opinion video from The NYTimes including breaking news, investigative reporting, national and international coverage. Style and celebrity video.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• Damnation Books Releases New Horror Title at the World Horror Convention
  Damnation Books is releasing The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two at the World Horror Convention in New Orleans on 13 June 2013. Damnation Books presents The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two an anthology of short horror stories. Damnation Books is owned by William and Kim Richards Gilchrist. Their continuing mission is to bring darned good dark fiction to e-readers everywhere at a darn good ...
  June 13, 2013 - PR.com
• Bring Out The Best In Your Boobs
  In our 20s they were perky. In our 30s they still looked pretty darned good. In our 40s, they started to sag – a little. Now in our 50s, we could use some help. Not to worry, ladies. If you don’t have the money, time, and pain threshold to endure a breast lift, breast reduction, or breast augmentation, one simple way to feel immediately sexier, shapelier, and thinner is to wear a properly fitted ...
  June 12, 2013 - Santa Monica Mirror

Quotes

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• Charlie Crist in MiamiHerald.com
  I didn't endorse it,Crist told CNN host Wolf Blitzer. "I - you know, I didn't even have a vote on the darned thing. But I understood that it was going to pass and I wanted to be able to utilize it for the benefit of my fellow Floridians."
• Tom Dart in FOXNews
  We have to be sure that when we are doing this - and we are destroying some people's lives - we better be darned sure we're talking about the right people,Dart said.
• Carl Edwards in Hartford Courant
  That darned 18 car got us again,said runner-up Carl Edwards.