Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for deuced
Adjective
  • This is the cursed object that shows up at the Smurls, though the actual conjuring mirror – long a mainstay in the Warrens' Occult Museum, alongside the infamous Annabelle – was obtained from a man in New Jersey.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The new documentary Boorman and the Devil mostly answers that question affirmatively, providing a play-by-play account of the film’s troubled — and as many believed, cursed — production, followed by its catastrophic reception.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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
  • But one other thing Reclaim does is show just how awful the Portal system is.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • How the Dolphins grow from such an awful performance will be paramount.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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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“Deuced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deuced. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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