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

But sometimes, he emphasized, it does “get pretty doggone hot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

“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

Maybe this guy would feel sorry for me and put me on a bus to Grand Rapids and I wouldn’t have to do any more doggone walking.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" 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

"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

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

When I marry, it'll be because I'm so doggoned in love I'd be sitting out on the top step waiting for him to come round.

From Making Money by Owen Johnson

But there ain't; and you know doggoned well there ain't.

From The Wreckers by Francis Lynde

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 Frances Parker

Well, I 27was so doggoned mad when I found out what he’d done that I didn’t even stop to eat, and I followed him on the run until dark.

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