doggoned
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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
If we don’t have rain pretty doggoned soon we won’t have any crop.”
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell
And he's goin' to find out right now that it ain't no use to bring any doggoned teacher up here to teach this outfit.
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Parker, Frances
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