Curses, foiled again

"YOU SAID A BAD WORD TO ME!!" my daughter Sasha, 7, cried, shocked, after I had, in fact, said a bad word to her. I loudly think lots of bad words to my children, but rarely do they come out of my mouth in their hearing. The bad word in question was "damned," as in  Lady MacBeth's, "Out, out, damned spot," Queen of the Damned, and, of course, Damned if you Do, Damned if you Don't (a.k.a., life with twins, which I have).

I had kept it clean the first three times I asked her to please stop...