doggone

Let’s just say there’s a whole lot of doggone fun to have here.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

And I was like, ‘Ooh I’m gonna call this doggone number, I’ve been cheated on.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

“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

And, doggone it, Palin appears to have a puncher’s chance of winning.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022

Since him and Ma still think I’m so doggone fra-gile they’re always looking out for me, always trying to make it so I don’t feel bad ’bout something I did that’s total foolish.

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 a-goin’ to be a doggoned purty critter,” said a lounger who sat on a barrel near by.

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

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

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

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