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doggone

[dawg-gawn, -gon, dog-] / ˈdɔgˈgɔn, -ˈgɒn, ˈdɒg- /




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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

“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 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

Why, the boy took to shivering and teeth-chattering and knee-knocking so doggone much that I felt a chill of coldness run down my back!

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

"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

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

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

All right then, don’t use the doggoned road!”

From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

Say, what’s your doggoned hurry–have you got to sell out the first day?”

From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

“Lord a massy! if thet thar ain’t jest like one o’ his doggoned tales!

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




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