Noun : an old sock full of darns. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Darn that pesky fly!. From Dictionary.com.
"It's what you'd call a darned good offer," explained Armstrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Dollar] Reference
It's kind of darned if you do and darned if you don't, though. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2008] Reference
Remember when I darned "My So-Called Life" and put it on my 'darned' list. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
I say 'darned' because men don't need it as much as we sometimes do. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
This kind was known as darned netting. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
They are so darned cute they could almost be stuffed. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 47: Operation: Kangaroos] Reference
Shows a close-stitch pattern darned on an open ground. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
A well worn but neatly darned carpet covered the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
"Wall, I be gol-darned if they haint just like t'others.". From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
"You darned kid, you!" he began, with fascinating fluency. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
And, as negotiating ploys go, it's a pretty darned good one. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliant bargaining chip] Reference
Her dress looked worn and shabby, and her gloves were darned. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
It was a darned good copy of a nineteenth century ranch house. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
Then there is that darned issue of the iPhone trademark itself. From Wordnik.com. [Macworld: "Ars longa, vita brevis"] Reference
I said earlier that it's a pretty darned good negotiating ploy. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliant bargaining chip] Reference
Another left a moist spot on one of Silvey's oft darned stockings. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
I'll be gol darned if I haint down-right glad to see you, old boy. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
"I'm darned if he warn't," he repeated, when the captain laughed when. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Wes, the gol-darned thing ain't built yet, but the men are at work on it. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The same thread is used for the netted ground and for the darned pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
That night I ate a steak, not a great steak, but a pretty darned good one. From Wordnik.com. [Story pick: How not to be boring] Reference
I shouted, in a contagion of insanity; 'all right, take the darned thing!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
It's been going nowhere but up and what does the darned thing do when I'm longest?. From Wordnik.com. [That Darned Yen] Reference
Andas you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. From Wordnik.com. [What the Graduates Heard] Reference
You can try asking real CIA agents -- but they're just so darned secretive about it!. From Wordnik.com. [D.C. spies admire "Covert Affairs," question its realism] Reference
It may be morally wrong to keep you, but the whole darned frame-up was morally wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
"A man has so darned much to do and such a little while to do it in," exclaimed Noyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
"I wish he'd get that darned old Francine!" my mother spit out. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Your Brother] Reference
Sure it has no edge, and yes, it's not brave anymore but, well: it is darned precious. From Wordnik.com. [Cat Weaver: Rob Pruitt: Pattern and Degradation - Gavin Brown's Enterprise & Maccarone Gallery 9/11-10/23] Reference
Mrs. Riddles had spread a clean but much-darned tablecloth, and the roast pork was ready. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Tell those darned awful, rude passengers where they can shove those bags they hit you with. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: When Psycho Flight Attendants Become Heroes] Reference
The medal count says the Americans are big winners, but darned if we don't feel like losers. From Wordnik.com. [Day of Reckoning] Reference
Think of just waiting around for an earthquake or something -- or for some darned bird to sing!. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Lacis network darned into patterns has always been popular here, as also in Denmark, Sweden, and. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
"Saw Persis Dale out here just now, and I'll be darned if she ain't getting better looking every day.". From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
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