drat

OK — so we’d at least get up to that bend in the trail to take a peek … and … drat!

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019

But as might be expected in the cat-and-mouse game that is the run-up to the drat, he also said the team could well stay use its first-round pick at number 21.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2019

But Carroll resisted that idea, repeating what Schneider had said — that this was simply a deep defensive back drat.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2017

Arnold said, or some variant of drat, and threw his shoes and clubs in the suddenly quiet locker room.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2010

“Absolutely,” cried the bard, “in a flash! A Fflam never hesitates. Fortunes of war and all that. Oh, drat and blast! There goes another string. A thick one, too.”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

I certainly wish Germany to stay in the Eurozone, not to be able to dip into its dratted kitty, but for its own sake as well as for Europe's sake.

From Economist ● May 2, 2013

The Zags are left to sort out how much of that exit was due to their own frailties and how much to dratted ill timing and bad luck.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2013

The dratted devices also make it easier for managers in one time zone to spoil the evenings of managers in another.

From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2012

And the grand old game of golf has never been the same since some dratted tinkerer invented the wedge.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am still unbelievably sore—not from the crash but from holding the dratted plane in level flight all during that final hour.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

"But if you go dratting things, I can't economize," the girl reminded him.

From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter

"Doing nothing's the hardest job I ever struck," he growled, shifting impatiently from shade to shade, and dratting the flies and dust; and even sank so low as to envy the missus her house.

From We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn