cussedness

Example Sentences

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Mule-skinners found they couldn’t handle camels’ pure cussedness the way they managed mules.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

We might live on and on and on, through sheer cussedness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2020

There’s a certain cussedness to my personality that means, as soon as someone says, “No, that’s not for you,” I absolutely have to know about it.

From National Geographic • Jan. 27, 2018

Buried within was a streak of cussedness that acidified the sweetness of his lines.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2016

We thought it was plain old cussedness that kept him in that park, day after day, rain or shine.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman