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cussed
CIDE DICTIONARY
cussed, adj.
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate.
"[Narrower terms: unregenerate (vs. regenerate), unregenerated ]" [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cussed, adj. colloq. awkward and stubborn.
Derivative
cussedly adv. cussedness n.
Etymology
var. of CURSED
THESAURUS
cussed
baleful, bearish, bitchy, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, confounded, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cursed, disagreeable, doggone, excitable, feisty, fractious, harmful, hateful, huffish, huffy, infernal, iniquitous, invidious, irascible, irritable, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, noxious, ornery, perverse, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, waspish, wickedROGET THESAURUS
cussed
Sullenness
N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.For further exploring for "cussed" in Webster Dictionary Online