doggone
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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
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
“My prized possession. Had it since I was a boy. Never read me a book, but by jiggers, I have a bookcase. The doggone doggonedest bookcase you ever did hear of, too.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
"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
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
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
"Well, I call that a doggoned shame!" and Jarvis started again for the stairs.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles
"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 McCarter, Margaret Hill
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
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 Raine, William MacLeod
