Is it defects of administration, or a certain "cussedness" in the Scotch character, which resents any tightening of law?.    From Wordnik.com.  [England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend] Reference

Fashion is the parent of both -- "cussedness" and consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

"And this converted you to the 'cussedness' theory?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914] Reference

Is it defects of administration, or a certain "cussedness" in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend] Reference

Outside of his writings, there was nothing of what we Americans call "cussedness" about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Libertarian Labyrinth] Reference

I was not in love with her myself; I'm afraid it was simply mischief -- pure 'cussedness' on my part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

There is a heap of 'cussedness' mixed up with your usual amiability, and you are at times too fond of a fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference

You know that to most people 'cussedness' is the governing factor of life. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914] Reference

"cussedness" what it lacked in size, gave him an exceedingly warm time of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

"cussedness" which inanimate objects can be capable of; while surveying it wrathfully, he awoke to the racket in the upper regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York] Reference

"The cussedness of things," vouchsafed Tony, as she paused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness, but without malice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XI] Reference

Near death, McCain survived in prison camp by sheer cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [What These Eyes Have Seen] Reference

Yet, out of cussedness and pride, they still wore their green jackets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

'I still think it's rooted in human cussedness,' Wingate said stubbornly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

It takes all the bad diseases out of you and a good deal of the cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

I think it more that his driving force is simply sheer, stubborn cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh Captain, My Captain: Mal Reynolds, Anti-Anti-Hero] Reference

Crimes are often lifestyle crimes created out of pure need or pure cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference

Probably some sense of justice, and just as probably a lot of plain cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroics] Reference

She was either too scared now to answer, or wouldn't talk out of pure cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiddler Fair]

People don't disagree on constitutional law out of obstinacy or sheer cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Cheney and Addington did not predict the cussedness or the integrity of John Ashcroft.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bromwich: Cheney's Law] Reference

"It must uv been heah, Jim, whar ther original mustang learned his cussedness," said Jordan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wedge of Gold] Reference

"He probably counted on the natural cussedness of kids to do it for him, " Eric pointed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

Nature seemed to have marked him for single — cussedness, I had almost said, from the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Cook Husbands] Reference

It is only the cussedness of the English holding everything up by refusing regional assemblies.    From Wordnik.com.  [An English Parliament - It's Part of the Solution, Not the Problem] Reference

What heavy-woriders like Parollan lacked in stature, they made up in mass ... and pure cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship Who Sang]

Argh. It's enough to make me tie my tubes and have the SO get a vasectomy out of sheer cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tick Tock that Biological Clock - Feministing] Reference

When he became a little acquainted, his innate cussedness induced him to raise a riot in the prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference

Presumably out of pure cussedness the hospitals stayed where they were; and inevitably they were bombed.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

The pessimist quoted from his own experience at poker in illustration of the general cussedness of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

In his 30-year tenure at the head of The Fall he's raised cussedness to something approaching an art form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference

It is the primeval element, the "pure cussedness" which has to be conquered, or adjusted in every human being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference

For my part, if this is not put forward as an alternative scheme, I shall vote for tunnelling under the Gardens out of simple cussedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference

It was Davis whose bravery, incandescence, and occasional cussedness set the template for what it means to be an Australian screen actress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy Davis, Inspiring 'Brilliant Career's 30 Years Later] Reference