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Recent Examples of damnable Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead. Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025 Drawing the line isn’t easy, and the damnable thing is that standards change from generation to generation. Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025 Taken together, the two drove home a damnable fact about America in 2022: That virulent pus coursing through the souls of Mississippi racists in 1955 still flows and has been reconstituted in the despicable figure of Donald J. Trump and the people who follow him. Keith L. Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 17 Nov. 2022 Wordle two steps faster than the damnable robot. Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for damnable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damnable
Adjective
  • Some accredited investors have 'no freaking clue' Even investors who already qualify as accredited could welcome, and benefit from, such a test, experts say.
    Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Well, my freaking agent had spoiled it.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Requiem marks our return to Raccoon City, the first time we’ll be headed back to the iconic (albeit absolutely cursed) town since the events of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3.
    David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The 28-year-old Euphoria actor took on the role after actor Andrew Garfield passed citing scheduling conflicts, diving into the cursed creation of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, played by Oscar Isaac.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, this wasn’t a terrible episode, but having our heroes start in the UK and then end up in Spain in the first episode felt rushed and wasteful.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Both men are good, both men are bad and both men have made terrible mistakes.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But for the rest of us mere mortals, the idea of stepping into an ice bath for 10 minutes a day is awful.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And then these families are in this awful position.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There, the adults mate, and the mass erupts like an infernal, infectious volcano, spewing out eggs.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Roughly once a week, Nick Cave blogs about music, religion, grief, and the infernal state of world affairs through the medium of fan correspondence in his Red Hand Files newsletter.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.
    Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • The others have tried to forget all about it, and have managed to put some distance between themselves and their accursed hometown.
    New York Times, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.
    Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
Adjective
  • Horrible Bosses When three friends — played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis — regroup after a terrible day at their respective jobs, the fed-up employees drunkenly conspire to murder their seriously rotten employers and attempt to follow through.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • He was once asked to accept a dead whale; another time, an entire shipping container of rotten garlic.
    Kyra Morris, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Damnable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damnable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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