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doggone

[dawg-gawn, -gon, dog-] / ˈdɔgˈgɔn, -ˈgɒn, ˈdɒg- /




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Let’s just say there’s a whole lot of doggone fun to have here.

From MarketWatch Oct. 29, 2025

This week’s Slate News Quiz is doggone good.

From Slate May 17, 2024

“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they’re doing a doggone good job, which I’m very thankful for,” tight end Logan Thomas said.

From Washington Times Nov. 22, 2023

Nevertheless, Costner and his family “watched the whole doggone thing” and celebrated his win.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2023

Going like this I wasn’t never going to get away from this doggone city.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ain't dat de doggonest luck in de wide worl'!

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington

This has been the doggonest Fourth of July I ever spent, and as a result I am in much trouble.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan

"My nevvy, Paddy, Peter, the doggonest young scamp an old sea-horse ever tried to raise," Rouse bellowed.

From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

Brigadier General William L. Roberts, until recently head of the 500-man U.S. military mission in Korea, had called the Korean army "the best doggoned shooting army outside the United States."

From Time Magazine Archive

“He was always sayin’ dad was hookin’ his doggoned cattle.

From The Range Boss by Frank Earle Schoonover

He's so doggoned quick he'd have caught me, if it hadn't been for that blessed gleam in his eyes.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

“Lord a massy! if thet thar ain’t jest like one o’ his doggoned tales!

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But I’ve conquered the doggoned thing, and got her to spark right, and I went a couple of rounds, Sunday and all, just to make sure she was in working order.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher




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