Damnedest

Adjective
damnedest
 * 1) Surprising, remarkable, amazing.
 * 2) *1900: Phillip Gardner, Someone to Crawl Back to, page 107:
 * "And the damnedest thing happened. I was dreaming, but in my dream I was dreaming. It was the damnedest thing, really."
 * "And the damnedest thing happened. I was dreaming, but in my dream I was dreaming. It was the damnedest thing, really."

Noun

 * 1) One's best effort.
 * 2) *1991: Cathy Cash Spellman, Paint the Wind, page 148:
 * "Fancy was doing her damnedest to pull her own oar and the boys were tripping all over themselves to treat her like a lady."

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