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1850
accursed (or accurst), blasted, confounded, cotton-picking, cursed (also curst), cussed, damnable, dang, danged, darn (also durn), darned (also durned), infernal;
commendable, creditable, laudable, praiseworthy;
great, marvelous (or marvellous), wonderful;
atrocious, awful, bum, detestable, execrable, lousy, punk, rotten, terrible, wretched;
abominable, odious, vile;
contemptible, despicable, miserable, nasty, pitiable, pitiful, scabby, scummy, scurvy, shameful, sorry;
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1922
—used as a more polite form of damn
—used as a more polite form of damn
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