cussedness

Is her daughter really possessed by Alice’s spirit, or is she just messing with her mother’s head out of pure cussedness?

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

People keep stubbornly trying to find their joy, their best summer, driven by optimism or just sheer cussedness.

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

“Let us have tenderness but also a dash of cussedness and tragedy,” Meed promises early on.