How To Use cussedness In A Sentence
- It can be viewed as yet another manifestation of the awkwardness, or cussedness, of organisms.
- Such cussedness is rarely endearing to those whose job it is to make the government machine run smoothly.
- Anton considers the death of Hackenschmidt to have been an act of 'cussedness' -- the result of a determination to do no work for the Expedition!! Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
- The oppersite party is strong in cussedness; on our side, we know we're right, an 'we've made up our minds to die right on the spot, but never to yield. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
- His attributes are impressive: natural, aggressive running ability, a break-neck pace and a cussedness, guarding his territory like a dog with a bone.
- _ This appears a startling statement and a sweeping; but, as a matter of fact, the Eastern girl is not left, like her Western sister, to flirt and frivol into middle age in single "cussedness," but almost invariably becomes a respectable married lady at ten or twelve, and drapes her lovely, but not over clean, head in the mantle of old sacking, which it is _de rigueur_ for matrons to adopt. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
- A natural tenacity and cussedness led her to espouse many causes which today are taken for granted - women's rights and contraception, for example - but which were then considered slightly odd.
- Is it defects of administration, or a certain "cussedness" in the Scotch character, which resents any tightening of law? England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
- Amidst this unnerving display of journalistic cussedness, some Gujarati newspapers tried hard to sustain professional standards.
- Bill Thomson, whose reputation for pure, unadulterated "cussedness" was notorious in this semi-barbarous section, was his overseer and most intimate friend. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
