deuced
- s expletives used informally as intensifiers
a deuced idiot
- He has evidently done well for himself: "Only the other day the Prime Minister himself said, 'Talbot, you're becoming a deuced bore about that voyage of yours.
- William was "deuced fond" of Marianne, but he loved vivacious Marguerite, whose hair was "a riotous mop of natural curls" (Marianne had to use curlpapers).