Cussedness

n.

1.

Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. In her opinion it was all pure "cussedness." - Mrs. Humphry Ward. Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call "cussedness"). - James Bryce.

Noun

1.

cussedness - mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness Synonyms: orneriness

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

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