How To Use Cussedness In A Sentence
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It can be viewed as yet another manifestation of the awkwardness, or cussedness, of organisms.
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Such cussedness is rarely endearing to those whose job it is to make the government machine run smoothly.
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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
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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
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His attributes are impressive: natural, aggressive running ability, a break-neck pace and a cussedness, guarding his territory like a dog with a bone.
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_ 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
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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.
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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
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Amidst this unnerving display of journalistic cussedness, some Gujarati newspapers tried hard to sustain professional standards.
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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
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Fashion is the parent of both -- "cussedness" and consumption.
Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.
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His plight is also about entrenched bureaucratic cussedness, bad laws and anti-citizen legal procedures and practices.
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Not until he turns to walk back to the house does he reveal the mixture of cussedness and sheer obstinacy that makes him try to climb the highest peaks in the racing landscape.
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His years as a player have been characterised by the cussedness of never knowing when to yield.
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He had a supreme contempt for money, but he spoiled the best sides of his strange, eccentric character by enjoying a display of its worst facets with a "cussedness" as amusing as it was sometimes unpleasant.
Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker
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I'm driven more by cussedness and outrage at injustice than I am by any ideology.
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Mercifully, amid this sea of grey conformity, there are a few non-apparatchiks with the savvy and cussedness to highlight awkward issues without bothering to worry about being caned by that tyrant.
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Some years ago, when the "planchette" first came out, I remember that it acquired quite a reputation as a particularly erratic piece of mechanism, but for real mystery and _innate cussedness_, on general principles, commend me to the indicator.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
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When the film was finally screened last week, it quickly became clear that his jumpy demands and general cussedness have paid off.
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At last we started homewards, meaning to separate the properties of the two claimants; but M---- owned the only proper horse-separating corral in the whole country, and from obstinacy and cussedness would not let us use it.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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It's basically a bet on human cussedness, the belief that history shows that humans can turn any apparent eventuality on its head, if we work at it hard enough.
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Miss Tempest, with a woman's daring, and the true spirit of "cussedness," took every risk, and, though even the enthusiastic and misinformed London papers have been obliged to avoid pet allusions to the "furore created in America" by the unfortunate
Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905
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We know whether we have to do with a gentleman or a cad, and whether his subsequent parsimoniousness is caused by cussedness or simply ignorance of the customs of such establishments, and we treat him in consequence.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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His diagnosis would be something like hobnail liver, clogged arteries, and general cussedness.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Artistically, though, he deserves a volume to himself, albeit one with tales of cussedness and strife strewn among the creative triumphs.
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At other times, I reproach myself for pure cussedness.
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This effect, rather subtle in itself, might be called the psychological factor of the situation, for there is not the slightest doubt that it produced a kind of cussedness in everyone, from the highest to the lowest, and sapped energy and made changes unwelcome.
In Mesopotamia
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However, had we, like the Highlanders in aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, been told we were not allowed to wear the kilt, we might well have gone ahead and done so out of sheer cussedness.
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He refused to help out of sheer/pure cussedness.
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As he grew older, this cussedness became more pronounced, until his hatred of benighted autocratic states led him in the eyes of many to betray his left-wing views altogether.
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He's 72 now, and there's a certain cussedness to his bone-dry directorial style that suggests it's a job he should now do less.
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If you have that extra cussedness - call it professionalism if you like - then you can turn bad days into good ones.
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Sometimes, out of sheer cussedness, I say ‘Is this seat free?’
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Life isn't all about black and white or right or wrong, and if we can't tolerate some degree of weakness or even cussedness, then, like the puritans of New England, we've lost a vital part of our humanity.
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His diagnosis would be something like hobnail liver, clogged arteries, and general cussedness.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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The nutcrackers can scarcely be numbered among the common birds, but are sometimes seen in our hill stations, and, such is the "cussedness" of birds that if I omit to notice the nutcrackers several are certain to show themselves to many of those who read these lines.
Birds of the Indian Hills
