About The Word Cussedness
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Cussedness
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What's The Definition Of Cussedness?
[n] mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cussedness: orneriness Related Terms | Find terms related to Cussedness: bearishness | bitchiness | cantankerousness | churlishness | contrariness | crabbedness | crankiness | crossness | crustiness | devilment | devilry | deviltry | difficultness | disagreeability | dourness | evil intent | excitability | fractiousness | frowardness | harmfulness | hatefulness | huffiness | huffishness | iniquitousness | invidiousness | irascibility | irritability | maleficence | malice | malice aforethought | malice prepense | maliciousness | malignance | malignancy | malignity | meanness | nastiness | noxiousness | orneriness | perverseness | perversite | perversity | snappishness | stuffiness | sulkiness | sullenness | testiness | ugliness | waspishness | waywardness | wickedness | wrongheadedness See Also | contrariness | perverseness | perversity Cussedness In Webster's Dictionary \Cuss"ed*ness\, n. [Cussed (for cursed) + -ness.]
Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity;
cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]
In her opinion it was all pure ``cussedness.'' --Mrs.
Humphry Ward.
Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans
call ``cussedness''). --James Bryce.
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