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1. n. meanspirited disagreeable contrariness Source: wordnet
2. Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.] In her opinion it was all pure "cussedness." Mrs. Humphry Ward. Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call "cussedness"). James Bryce. Source: webster
3. Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity;cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.] Source: adambom
4. n. meanspirited disagreeable contrariness Source: ecdict

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perversity contrariness disagreeable disposition malignity meanspirited obstinacy slang willful wrongdoing Americans call her james Mrs opinion pure ward

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