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

But sometimes, he emphasized, it does “get pretty doggone hot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

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

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022

I said, “He was pretty big. I can’t see how we can hop on a train, they look like they’re moving pretty doggone fast.”

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

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

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

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

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

“There,” he says, “you’re so doggoned bad–next time I see you I’ll know you!”

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge

“She’s a-goin’ to be a doggoned purty critter,” said a lounger who sat on a barrel near by.

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