blamed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bleɪmd/
• Rhymes: -eɪmd

Adjective

blamed (not comparable)

1. euphemism of damned (intensifier)
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:

     “I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers.”

   • Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)

     "He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold.
     "That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."

Derived terms

• unblamed

 

Verb

blamed

1. simple past and past participle of blame

Anagrams

• balmed, bedlam, Bedlam, beldam, ambled, medlab, lambed