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damnedest

 adjective
     
damned‧est spoken not polite
1

do/try your damnedest

to try very hard to do something:
• I'll do my damnedest to fix it, but I can't promise anything.
2 [only before noun] used to emphasize that something is unusual, surprising etc:
• It was the damnedest thing you ever saw!
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