doggone

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

And I was like, ‘Ooh I’m gonna call this doggone number, I’ve been cheated on.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

“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

And, doggone it, Palin appears to have a puncher’s chance of winning.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022

The next sound I heard was even worse than if the vampire had said, “Aha, you doggone kid, that hurt, but now I get my revenge!”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

"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

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

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

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington

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

When I marry, it'll be because I'm so doggoned in love I'd be sitting out on the top step waiting for him to come round.

From Making Money by Owen Johnson

"Well, little sweetheart, honest now, and I won't tell, and it's none of my doggoned business neither; but be you goin' to marry Amos Judson?"

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

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

From The Range Boss by Frank Earle Schoonover

I’ll be doggoned if I ever saw such a thing as a fellow lettin’ another guy walk off with his wife—when he ain’t been married hardly two hours yet.

From The Fighting Edge by William MacLeod Raine