doggone

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

“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

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

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022

Maybe this guy would feel sorry for me and put me on a bus to Grand Rapids and I wouldn’t have to do any more doggone walking.

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

"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

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 further inquired "what they wanted to hev sech a doggoned mis'able word as thet on a ring fur?"

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

“She’s a doggoned purty critter,” said the little man in large trousers, placidly.

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

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 Frances Parker

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