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Meanings of pure cussedness in English

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Usage of pure cussedness in English
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I used to think it stuck there out of simple, pure cussedness.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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She wasn't held up for a solid week out of pure cussedness.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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I guess it's just pure cussedness, and a hankerin' for a new investment.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
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But those mules know a motor truck, and what they did was pure cussedness.
One of Ours
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He could understand pure cussedness, but it did not seem to be that either.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Everything seems to have been arranged out of pure cussedness, just to spite me.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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Well-whoknows-maybehuman beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness.
The Sirens of Titan
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All kinds of theories were advanced, such as poison, malaria from Indiana, and pure cussedness.
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
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But Sam said it was "jest pure cussedness."
Days Off, and Other Digressions
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Out of pure cussedness.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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It is the primeval element, the " pure cussedness" which has to be conquered, or adjusted in every human being.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
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For pure cussedness the knight has no equal, and when you chase him out of one hole he skips into another.
Amusements in Mathematics
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Then I would look to see how the sun was getting on, and sometimes I thought it had stuck from pure cussedness.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
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They do all the mean things they can think of, and they do them just out of pure cussedness, and nothing else.
Sketches New and Old
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She had been placed in this institution under legal restraint to be treated for morphinism, and, according to her brother, " pure cussedness."
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
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"If you were not my own idolized wife, I should say that was ' pure cussedness.'"
The House That Jill Built, after Jack's Had Proved a Failure
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