doggoned

American  

[dawg-gawnd, -gond, dog-] / ˈdɔgˈgɔnd, -ˈgɒnd, ˈdɒg- /

adjective

• doggonedest
  superlative

1. doggone.

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Adjective Inflected Forms

• doggonedest
  superlative

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doggoned doggonedest

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

“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

"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

They swarmed up the stairs an' crowded the elevators, while that doggoned Tex sicked 'em on me.

From Oh, You Tex! by Raine, William MacLeod

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 Raine, William MacLeod

“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

When they get down, a big straddle truck on caterpillar treads picks them up—they land in the doggonedest places, sometimes!—and brings ’em back.

From Space Platform by Leinster, Murray

Kipping is the meanest, doggonedest, low-down wharf-runner that ever robbed poor Jack of his wages.

From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman

The rest is ammonia, water, methane, a dozen important organics, including some of the damn ... doggonedest metallic complexes you ever heard of.

From Industrial Revolution by Anderson, Poul William

"Why, that's the doggonedest thing I ever heard!" he said.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth