Synonyms: tinker's dam, tinker's damn, shit, shucks, red cent, damn, darn, hoot
Definition: something of little value
Usage: his promise is not worth a damn; not worth one red cent; not worth shucks
Similar words: worthlessness, ineptitude
Definition: having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Usage: the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
Synonyms: beshrew, bedamn, anathemise, anathemize, imprecate, curse, damn, maledict
Definition: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
Usage: The bad witch cursed the child
Similar words: bring up, call down, call forth, invoke, conjure, conjure up, arouse, put forward, raise, evoke, stir
Definition: summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Usage: raise the specter of unemployment; he conjured wild birds in the air; call down the spirits from the mountain
Synonyms: damn, damned, darned, deuced, infernal, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, blame, blamed, blasted, blessed
Definition: expletives used informally as intensifiers
Usage: he's a blasted idiot; it's a blamed shame; a blame cold winter; not a blessed dime; I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing; he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool; a deuced idiot; an infernal nuisance
Definition: deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
Usage: villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed; cursed with four daughter; not a cursed drop; his cursed stupidity; I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning
Definition: used as expletives
Usage: oh, damn (or goddamn)!
Definition: deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
Usage: villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed; cursed with four daughter; not a cursed drop; his cursed stupidity; I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning