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bloody well

bloody well adverb: damn well.

Adverb

bloody well (not comparable)

  1. Damn well.
    • I dragged myself upright and glared after the departing truck. ‘If I want to blow myself up, then I bloody well will,’ I yelled hysterically.1976, Brian Callison, Trapp’s War, Saturday Review Press, →ISBN, page 75
    • "[…] Nobody I've met says it is OK as it is - because it bloody well isn't."2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41

Questions about bloody well

What does bloody well mean?
Bloody well means damn well.
What part of speech is bloody well?
Bloody well is an adverb.

Words near bloody well in the dictionary

  1. bloody sweat
  2. bloody sweats
  3. bloody up
  4. bloody warrior
  5. bloody warriors
  6. bloody well
  7. bloody William
  8. bloody Williams
  9. bloody-handed
  10. bloody-handedly
  11. bloody-handedness

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