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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1782 damned, confounded <in a deuced fix> • deuced or deucedly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. archaic damned, confounded (a deuced liar). Derivatives: deucedly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deuced Deu"ced, a. Devilish; excessive; extreme. [Low] -- Deu"ced*ly, adv.