Deuced (Adjective)
Meaning
Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The puzzle is a deuced challenge for a novice.
- The crowd gasped as the athlete suffered a deuced cruel injury during the match.
- This confounded paperwork is deucedly complex, can't someone explain it simply?
- After getting rejected again, Jack let out a loud deuced thing about the recruiter's fairness.
- By George, what a deuced impressive leap by that steeplechaser over the obstacle!