Meanspirited disagreeable contrariness.
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Examples for "cussedness "
Examples for "cussedness "
1 All the cussedness of the bovine race is centred in the cow.
2 I used to think it stuck there out of simple, pure cussedness .
3 What's more, the cussedness of this choice in itself gives me hope.
4 She wasn't held up for a solid week out of pure cussedness .
5 He rigged a little sled together out of pure nothing and cussedness .
1 The mul taskmaster at the orphanage had taught him the errors of orneriness with daily demonstrations.
2 Oh, Pete comes by his orneriness honestly enough.
3 Anderson would not necessarily appreciate the comparison, but he has just a touch of McGrath's orneriness about him too.
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.
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 .
6 "All right, ma'am," he said from habit, not orneriness .
7 "You got a lot of faith in our abilities." Aggie registered displeasure out of orneriness , not lack of confidence.
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Translations for orneriness