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
“When I first started coming, they were very standoffish. Now most of them are pretty doggone friendly,” Olivio said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
“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
Maybe the vampire bat didn’t say it, but the only thought on my mind was, “Aha, you doggone Amoses, that hurt, but now I get my revenge!”
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
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
Ain't dat de doggonest luck in de wide worl'!
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington
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
They swarmed up the stairs an' crowded the elevators, while that doggoned Tex sicked 'em on me.
From Oh, You Tex! by William MacLeod Raine
She’s thar shore enough, ‘n’ it seems like he’s gwine to keep her; but I wouldn’t hev believed it ef I hadn’t seen it, doggoned ef I would!
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
No, I ain’t no guide, only a tenderfoot—a doggoned professor.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford
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
