damnfool

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1. informalnot comparablesometimesvulgarContemptibly foolish.

   […] those damnfool detective stories you read […]

   1973, Edith Taylor, The Serpent Under It

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   ‘[…] Whole page seems to be given up to some damn-fool cycling championship at Cricklewood Stadium.’

   1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2.1, p. 21

   People bored Manchek; the mechanics of manipulation and the vagaries of subordinate personality held no fascination for him. He often wished he were back at the wind tunnels of Wright Patterson. Particularly on nights when he was called out of bed by some damnfool problem.

   1969, Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

   Damnfool thing to be asking. Might as well inquire, what possessed you to rush in here?

   1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

   And celebrating damnfool so-called holidays like Space Colony Day and Reagan's Birthday? 'Course, they do Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas and such...

   2000, Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Merrill Squier, Julie Vedder, Native Tongue

plural damnfools

1. informalsometimesvulgarA contemptibly foolish person.