doggoned

American  

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

adjective

• doggonedest
  superlative

1. doggone.

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Other Word Forms

Adjective Inflected Forms

• doggonedest
  superlative

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Example Sentences

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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

I’d give a doggoned big cigar to know where you was all that time.”

From Seven Miles to Arden by Ruth Sawyer

"Pan, I'll be doggoned if we didn't see a million broomies today," burst out Blinky.

From Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey

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

From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

"Well, little sweetheart, honest now, and I won't tell, and it's none of my doggoned business neither; but be you goin' to marry Amos Judson?"

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

“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

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

From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes

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

From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

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 Murray Leinster

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 Poul William Anderson

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