Cussedness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  


           In her opinion it was all pure "cussedness." --Mrs.
                                                    Humphry Ward.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
           Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans
           call "cussedness").                      --James Bryce.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cussedness
       n : mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness [syn: {orneriness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "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