Adjective : That is a confounded lie. From Dictionary.com.
Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
You're a man, and a confoundedly plucky fellow too. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
I half wish now I hadn't been so confoundedly prudent. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
"I shouldn't mind if she were not so confoundedly ugly.". From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
How do I know this? mumbled the mosquito confoundedly. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Many of them are an inch long, and they bite confoundedly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
"I'm -- I'm confoundedly sleepy," he murmured apologetically. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
I am most confoundedly chagrined and disappointed: for here, on. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I hope you will not think me a confoundedly disagreeable fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
In about half an hour I began to feel confoundedly uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829] Reference
For, upon my soul, the matter begins to grate me most confoundedly. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
"It is so confoundedly healthy at this particular season," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
"You seem to take a confoundedly big interest in the girl," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
We've got to get up in a few hours for this confoundedly early parade. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
The ostler thought he was confoundedly imperious, considering his machine. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
Miss Howe is a charming creature too; but confoundedly smart and spiritful. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But yet I know I shall reach confoundedly, and bring up some clotted blood. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
She was -- confoundedly; and it was on the tip of my tongue to tell her so. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Maybe it was his liver that made him feel so confoundedly rotten and no count. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
I want to get at the reason why Henson has been so confoundedly good to Heritage. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
She looks confoundedly like what my wife was at her best, but she's another person. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
How confoundedly lucky it was that he had forestalled me; my self-respect was saved. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger] Reference
When we had finished, I do not know how Forrest felt, but I was confoundedly drowsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
This confoundedly good-natured, self-satisfied crowd moving in couples irritated him. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
How often, in the past twelve hours, have I wished that I could cry most confoundedly?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
What in thunder was there about that to make a man feel so confoundedly well satisfied?. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
I bought the Harenc property as a speculation, and it turned out a confoundedly bad one. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
I've taken a bed for the night, because I feel confoundedly tired after last night's run. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
On the table was his belated breakfast, and it was a confoundedly exasperating thing for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
The only bother was that she was too confoundedly anxious about me, and wouldn't let me work. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
"Yes," said the rector with his martial air -- "good enough, I admit, but confoundedly slow.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
"It's because we've been too confoundedly easy with these fellows," snorted Billy wrathfully. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
"I am confoundedly tired, and I got scorched into the bargain," said he, muttering to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
He could not very well tell her that she was too confoundedly good-looking to be alone in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
"Then I am neither wise nor good, for I have lost my all, and it comes confoundedly amiss to me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
The general result is that he has become deucedly independent and occasionally confoundedly cheeky. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
The Englishman can be funny, even hilarious, and unconsciously, confoundedly well bred at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
I heard, as I was "shooing" on my bullocks, a very dejected voice exclaim, "How confoundedly disappointing.". From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
I have been thinking, George, of changing our traveling dresses in the morning, I am grown confoundedly ashamed of mine. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
"I believe I am considered witty," I replied, hardly knowing what I said: I tell you, that sort of thing makes a man confoundedly nervous. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
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