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CUSSEDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
Synonyms:
cussedness; orneriness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cussedness" is a kind of...):
contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)
Derivation:
cussed (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing)