dratted

Example Sentences

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If Priebus really were a sitcom dad, he would be shaking his head and saying, “That dratted Donald!”

From The New Yorker

"The mania for these dratted things means that high streets everywhere are now chock full of tiny people who act like they've been on the whisky," complains Guardian columnist Bella Mackie.

From BBC

“Knew! Of course we knew! How could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was? Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that — that school — and came home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for what she was — a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!”

From Literature

I certainly wish Germany to stay in the Eurozone, not to be able to dip into its dratted kitty, but for its own sake as well as for Europe's sake.

From Economist

The Zags are left to sort out how much of that exit was due to their own frailties and how much to dratted ill timing and bad luck.

From Seattle Times