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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, 5 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 The damnable words of some philosopher then consider the many facets of your demise by shotgun blast. Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 10 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for damnable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damnable
Adjective
  • As the cursed descendants of Eve, women deserved it.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 13 July 2025
  • The Ultimate Edition does a lot to smooth out the confused plotting, but even in the theatrical cut, Batman v Superman feels like a cursed vision of superheroes plagued by fears around self-preservation and cruelty.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • If Trump takes Powell’s scalp, most observers warn, terrible things will unfold because of the ballooning national debt.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • But when terrible news arrives about her ex, all eyes turn to Ana — whose reputation isn't exactly sterling.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • Pictures of Piper the dog, who last year went through an awful health scare after having a rawhide treat.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • That’s a horrible way to feel, and an awful way for fans to treat her.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • On Wednesday, New York HUT levels were up nearly 10% compared to the previous week, when the air didn’t feel (and smell) like some sort of infernal fish chowder.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 June 2025
  • Climbing 18,000 feet, through knee-deep snow in some years, and descending more than 23,000 feet into infernal canyons with temps bubbling up to 120 degrees, WSER isn’t a feat for mere mortals.
    Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.
    Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • 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
Adjective
  • But today that moral arc is as twisted as a gnarled, rotten root, and God Bless America has been replaced by the mournful dirge of Taps.
    Marci Alborghetti, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025
  • The odor comes from a toxic gas that’s colorless and smells like rotten eggs.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025

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“Damnable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damnable. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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