dashed

Adjective

 * 1)  Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
 * 2)  Damned.
 * It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels &mdash; we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

Usage notes

 * Dashed in the sense of "damned" is associated with the old-fashioned British upper class.

Synonyms

 * darned
 * darned