“cussedness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

cussedness

释义

cussedness colloq. or slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈkʌsɪdnɪs|
Malignity, perversity of disposition, cantankerousness, ‘contrariness’.
1866Lowell Biglow P. Introd., Cussedness, meaning wickedness, malignity.1881J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xxxiv, What has been termed by some philosophers the natural cussedness of things.1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. 360 Owing to the inherent disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call ‘cussedness’) of bodies of men.1904Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 3/2 The kind of man..who out of sheer ‘cussedness’..would succeed where a dozen others would fail.1905E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 153 He could understand pure cussedness, but it did not seem to be that.1922Joyce Ulysses 605 He put it down to sheer cussedness.1931E. O'Neill Mourning becomes Electra i. iv. 90, I guess there's bitterness inside me—my own cussedness, maybe.

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