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Definition of Cussedly

1. Adverb. In a stubborn unregenerate manner. "She remained stubbornly in the same position"

Definition of Cussedly

1. in a cranky manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cussedly

Literary usage of Cussedly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Dear Wells by Henry Arthur Jones, Herbert George Wells (1921)
"... but in the world at large by actual men and women, who will be cussedly liable to error and passion—administered by them for their fellow men and women ..."

2. My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letter by Henry Arthur Jones (1921)
"... but in the world at large by actual men and women, who will be cussedly liable to error and passion—administered by them for their fellow men and women ..."

3. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"... seized upon anything .that would add to its glory, without reference always to fitness. "I wish it didn't look so cussedly like a robber's cave ..."

4. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
""Of course, I know you wouldn't allow a Frenchman to say all that, and that you are just talking cussedly with your own wife." A ring at the bell caused a ..."

5. Camera (1907)
"that 1 was so cussedly ignorant. He used to occasionally show me a picture he was printing in the sun and would ask my advice as to its being "deep enough ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"Whereupon, Thompson, who cared not a fig for the reflection cast upon his curls, but was most cussedly riled at being called a lubber, (as well he might be, ..."

7. Michigan in the War by Michigan Adjutant-General's Dept (1882)
"... and the Governor and party left looking and feeling what might be called cussedly mean—so mean one dare not look another in the face, and no further ..."

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