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Examples of godforsaken in a Sentence
Who would want to visit such a godforsaken place?
grew up in the kind of godforsaken town in which everyone drank in order to forget that they were there
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On Monday, USA Today reported that more than 1,000 Secret Service agents have already hit the salary and overtime caps that were supposed to last them for the rest of this godforsaken year.
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Just please, for the love all that is good and righteous on this godforsaken planet, do not eat your burger patty with a fork and knife.
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The setting is some godforsaken part of rural England in the mid-19th century.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Warren Buffett, Jared Kushner for some godforsaken reason—who come together once a year to remind people that Idaho is still a state in the union.
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On this day in history, Ma and Pa Streep blessed us with a daughter named Meryl, who, 68 years later, would be regarded as one of the last bastions of happiness and goodness in the godforsaken summer of 2017.
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The fact of the matter is, however, that Congressional Republicans will have to be a part of any realistic solution to this godforsaken mess.
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For a while, this formula works as Sergeant Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) hunkers behind a crumbling wall in a godforsaken swath of Iraq, pinned down by an unseen enemy sniper.
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Super Bowl XLVIII: How did the New York folks get to build a 21st century stadium in the middle of the godforsaken New Jersey Meadowlands?
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First Known Use of godforsaken
1778
godforsaken Synonyms
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black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, gloomy, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretchedAntonyms
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshinyRelated Words
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful; dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting; desperate, hopeless, pessimistic; lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful; colorless, drab, dull; dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threateningNear Antonyms
blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; lighthearted, lightsomeGODFORSAKEN Defined for English Language Learners
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