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expletives used informally as intensifiers
e.g. he's a blasted idiot
e.g. it's a blamed shame
e.g. a blame cold winter
e.g. not a blessed dime
e.g. I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing
e.g. he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool
e.g. a deuced idiot
e.g. an infernal nuisance
Synonym: blasted blame blamed blessed damn damned darned deuced goddam goddamn goddamned
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extremely evil or cruel
expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
e.g. something demonic in him--something that could be cruel
e.g. fires lit up a diabolic scene
e.g. diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils
e.g. a fiendish despot
e.g. hellish torture
e.g. infernal instruments of war
e.g. satanic cruelty
e.g. unholy grimaces
Synonym: demonic diabolic diabolical fiendish hellish satanic unholy
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being of the underworld
e.g. infernal regions
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characteristic of or resembling Hell
e.g. infernal noise
e.g. infernal punishment
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of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
e.g. infernal heat