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Meanings of cussedness in English

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Meanspirited disagreeable contrariness.

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        Examples for "orneriness"
        Examples for "orneriness"
        1
        The mul taskmaster at the orphanage had taught him the errors of orneriness with daily demonstrations.
        The brazen gambit
        2
        Oh, Pete comes by his orneriness honestly enough.
        Hiram the Young Farmer
        3
        Anderson would not necessarily appreciate the comparison, but he has just a touch of McGrath's orneriness about him too.
        The Guardian
        4
        But I seen I was a goner, and I forgive Hank all his orneriness, fur a feller don't want to die holding grudges.
        Danny's Own Story
        5
        No gentleman ought to lay his indecencies onto John Barley corn when they're nothing more nor less than the outcroppin's of his own orneriness.
        Heart of the Sunset
        Usage of cussedness in English
        1
        All the cussedness of the bovine race is centred in the cow.
        Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories
        2
        I used to think it stuck there out of simple, pure cussedness.
        Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
        3
        What's more, the cussedness of this choice in itself gives me hope.
        The Guardian
        4
        She wasn't held up for a solid week out of pure cussedness.
        The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
        5
        He rigged a little sled together out of pure nothing and cussedness.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        6
        I joined in the pleading and wailing out of sheer cussedness, I suppose.
        The Road
        7
        I had no particular motive, it wur just out of cussedness.
        In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
        8
        He stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his cussedness squeezed out.
        Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913
        9
        I guess it's just pure cussedness, and a hankerin' for a new investment.
        Buttered Side Down: Stories
        10
        Preaching often drives one wrong out of sheer 'cussedness,' I suppose.
        Flames
        11
        He was down to pure blind cussedness and was slowing, tiring.
        Night of Knives
        12
        It ain't no cussedness o' mine, or want o' trustin', don't you see?
        The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
        13
        He thought it was just old age and general cussedness.
        Casey Ryan
        14
        It is the incarnation of cussedness, the avatar of evil.
        The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
        15
        We have seen several elephants in various stages of cussedness.
        The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
        16
        You got to get more iron and cussedness into you.
        Main Street
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