the damned

noun

: the people who have been sent to hell as punishment after their death

the souls of the damned

Examples of the damned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Bot — the damned lucky Bot — gets 1 point for guessing in three and 1 point for beating me. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Mar. 2026

Dante describes Satan in the ninth circle of hell waving his featherless bat wings as the damned arrive. — Hazlitt, 29 Oct. 2025

In Michelangelo’s Last Judgment a devil drags one of the damned to hell by his testicles (which sounds like heaven to me). — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

Over the phone, Lena Gonzalez’s voice had the patient but proud tone of a lawyer charged with defending the damned. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for the damned

• diagrammed
• monogrammed
• preprogrammed
• reprogrammed
• crammed
• dammed
• jammed
• rammed
• slammed
• programmed