doggoned

American  

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

adjective

• doggonedest
  superlative

1. doggone.

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Adjective Inflected Forms

• doggonedest
  superlative

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

“Lord a massy! if thet thar ain’t jest like one o’ his doggoned tales!

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

"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

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

It almost seems as if somebody blew out the doggoned sun.

From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sydney Bowen

“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

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

From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

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

From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes

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

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