0 very surprising or unusual:
1 to try very hard:
2 very surprising or unusual:
We are faced with over-capacity in the airline market and airlines will do their damnedest to fill their planes.
At the moment most countries are not trying to achieve proportional representation; they are trying their damnedest to find out how to get rid of it.
They had the damnedest names, those big old fat buffalo women....
If these boys attack her, she is going to do her damnedest to take them down with her.
We're just having the damnedest time writing it.
The damnedest thing just happened !
We shall do our damnedest to ensure that their rights are preserved.
The police should do their damnedest to prevent that happening in order to get the co-operation that is to vital to the detection of crime.
