doggone

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 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

“My prized possession. Had it since I was a boy. Never read me a book, but by jiggers, I have a bookcase. The doggone doggonedest bookcase you ever did hear of, too.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

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

From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis

If any doggoned rustlers have been playing tricks with Bud," voiced Yellin' Kid as he rode off with Nort, Dick and Billee, "they had better make their wills.

From The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Baker, Willard F.

An’ doggoned if I do let it go, cost what it may to keep holt o’t.

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne

Well, sir, I went to Chicago, and hung around that doggoned city fur a week 'r two; but no Lil.

From The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan