cussedness

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Anton considers the death of Hackenschmidt to have been an act of 'cussedness'--the result of a determination to do no work for the Expedition!!

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  1. Cursedness; perverseness; cantankerousness. [Low or humorous, U. S.]

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  • I know that's what you want, too, only you're full of cussedness, and you want to do it your own way. —  PARTONE
  • It's cussedness, I say Tom started it again, listening as it missed, went faster, slowed down, stopped. —  Tom Slade on a Transport
  • I was not in love with her myself; I'm afraid it was simply mischief--pure 'cussedness' on my part If I hadn't seized that bouquet from under his nose he might have been alive now, and a happy man. —  The Idiot
  • Nature seemed to have marked him for single—cussedness, I had almost said, from the first. —  How to Cook Husbands
  • I would jest have beat ye a bit fer yer cussedness, then mebbe after a while I'd fergive ye. —  The Secret of the Storm Country
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  1. A vulgar pron. of cursedness; used with some ref. also to cuss, n., 2, a perverse or refractory person.
 

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