doggone

variants or doggoned

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for doggone
Adjective
  • The cursed son of a king, born half-bull and half-man.
    John Wiswell, People.com, 3 July 2025
  • Eight is a cursed number, and this is the eighth day of madness.
    Fatemeh Shams June 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rarely great, and consistently cringey in that NHL way we’re used to by now, but rarely terrible.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Even the ones that aren’t strictly evil in the biblical sense are often prone to doing terrible things.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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“Doggone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doggone. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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