Crossword clues for cussedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cussedness \Cuss"ed*ness\ (c[u^]s"[e^]d*n[e^]s), 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.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) The state or quality of being cussed.
WordNet
n. mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness [syn: orneriness]
Usage examples of "cussedness".
Then they moved slowly into position near the cliffs above Blue Dog Pass, the site of a little Badree Nym village where Hoon intended to ambush a minor godling, Dynanna God of Cussedness.
Hamilton began to hope either that the Communist scientists had missed the significance of rhenium or that they had accumulated the metal out of sheer cussedness, simply because, for some reason, the United States wanted it.
If there was none, I said, I could show her something in the marsh pools that she had never before seen sticklebacks building round nests under water and slashing at each other out of cussedness with the rows of bayonets on their backs.
It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.
And then, just out of cussedness, he steered an erratic course through the midevening crowd, ducked into the Astor bar and went on through it into the lobby and out another door, and through the crowd again.
An' deah Lord, good Lord, it ain't like yo' mercy, it ain't like yo' pity, it ain't like yo' long-sufferin' lovin' kindness for to take dis kind o' 'vantage o' sick little chil'en as dose is when dey's so many ornery grown folks chuck full o' cussedness dat wants roastin' down dah.
As there was no earthly necessity for our getting up under another two hours at the very least, and our getting up at that time was an utter absurdity, it was only in keeping with the natural cussedness of things in general that we should both feel that lying down for five minutes more would be death to us.
Although it was his gut feeling, doubtless illogical and indefensible, that the sheer cussedness of his own species, despite its record of atrocity, would ultimately allow it to muddle through.