cussedness
nounEtymology
From cussed + -ness.
Definitions
The state or quality of being cussed.
- Well, if ever a man was born bad in his temper, 'twas Captain Bligh. . . . They made an Admiral of him in the end, but they never cured his cussedness.
- Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness, but without malice. Just as soon kill you as not, but in a playful sort of way, you understand, without meaning to at all.
- He made camp there that night, pitching his little tent in the trail for pure cussedness, and defying aloud a traveling world to make him move until he got good and ready.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA