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

“The question is, give me a timetable. What’s the date for getting that boat out of that doggone water?”

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022

“Aw, shucks, Mr. Lewis, I swear, but I’d feel a lot better if I could take a doggone nap.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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 Dorgan, Dick

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

From The Argus Pheasant by Beecham, John Charles

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

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Tarkington, Booth

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

An' I'm doggoned if I'd be so all-fired amazed if everything come out fur the best.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 Johnson, Owen

Well, sir, I went to Chicago, and hung around that doggoned city fur a week 'r two; but no Lil.

From The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

And he's goin' to find out right now that it ain't no use to bring any doggoned teacher up here to teach this outfit.

From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Parker, Frances