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

“The question is, give me a timetable. What’s the date for getting that boat out of that doggone water?”

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022

“The big problem is the whole doggone system. That’s the elephant in the room that no one is willing to address.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

The girl is turning herself into a doggone scuba diver.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami 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

"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

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

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 Burnett, Frances Hodgson

“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 Coolidge, Dane

But I was so doggoned sore at that pardner of yours that I kinder went out of my head.”

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