Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blighted adj.

a euph. for bloody adj.

1898		E. Pugh Tony Drum 187: ‘Drop it, Tony, drop it!’ he yelled. ‘Don’t be such a blighted fat-head.’.
1904		Kipling ‘The Bonds of Discipline’ in Traffics and Discoveries 46: Tell me those hands belong to a blighted Portugee manual labourist, and I won’t call you a liar.
1908		A.N. Lyons Arthur’s 220: I ain’t a blighted juggins.
1911		E. Dyson ‘At the Opera’ in Benno and Some of the Push 92: ‘You blighted ass, they’ll fire you out in half a tick, and serve you good,’ said the man on his right.
1916		N. Douglas London Street Games 37: I’m goin to be blowed ef I play wiva lahsy blisterin blitherin blinkin blightin bloomin bleedin blasted baastard.
1916		Sun. Times (Perth) 30 July 1s/2: We don’t admit such blighted rot, / Not much! And strike me pink! who cares.
1923		Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves 147: The moment blighted Harold discovered that training meant knocking off pastry [...] he was all against it.
1931		O. Strange Law O’ The Lariat 143: Yu must be a blighted thought-reader, Pent.
1931		R.E. Howard ‘Alleys of Peril’ Fight Stories Jan. 🌐 We’re a couple o’ blightin’ idjits to be workin’ for a skirt.
1954		Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 53: Where were you last night, you blighted louse?
1992		I. Rankin Strip Jack 153: What the hell brings you to this blighted neck of the bings?