CUSSEDNESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meanspirited disagreeable contrariness

Synonyms:

cussedness; orneriness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("cussedness" is a kind of...):

contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)

Derivation:

cussed (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing)

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