adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a (damn/darned/darn) sight more/better etc
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Actually, a damn sight more than from that stiff gherkin Smott.
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I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober.
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If he listened to Anthony Scrivener, he would be a darned sight better.
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Perhaps not up there with Wilburforce but a damn sight more daring than anything Diana ever did!
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The Galapagos finch was a darn sight more valuable than Sandra Willmot.
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We were a darned sight better than them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you're all going to have to work a darned sight harder.
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He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis.
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Perhaps, after all, a general election is only the sublimation of a darned good riot.
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Seems the boy was flying too low, hit one of those darned electricity cables.
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We were a darned sight better than them.