cussedness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cuss=ed=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

cussedness, n. [Cussed (for cursed) + -ness.].

 Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"In her opinion it was all pure “cussedness.”"  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call “cussedness”)."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

cussedness

Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.