cussed
IPA: kˈʌst
adjective
- (chiefly US, informal) Ill-tempered, nasty, obstinate.
- (informal, dated) Cursed, damned.
adverb
- (chiefly US, informal, degree) Very, cussedly, accursedly.
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Examples of "cussed" in Sentences
- These are now dis cussed in turn.
- That was the bird that cussed him out.
- Daniel, you've cussed twice on this page.
- He then cursed and cussed at me unexpectedly.
- Only thing, she calls a cussed old catfish a 'poisson.'
- Yet another natural disaster, this time an earthquake of horrendous magnitude, has all but flattened what was left of that 'cussed' country.
- (Loud applause) A race, which stubbornly refuses to look at the map until its business has been done, and which after all has a straightforward-I speak in the presence of a Bishop - "cussed" honesty about it.
- Of course she was very indignant and scolded them, Goliah specially, whereupon Goliah's sister Catty, who is well named, being of a feline nature in the worst sense of the word, had broken out and "cussed" her outrageously.
- From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state.
- Den de good ol '' Lishy looked back an 'cussed 'em, when two she-bars heerd him an' come out uf de woods wid der cubs at der heels, an 'walked in on der hin' legs 'mong dem bad town-boys, a scratchin 'an' a clawin ', a bitin' an 'a gnawin', right an 'lef', an 'neber stoppin' till dey had tore an 'chawed 'em every one up.
- But it must be admitted that the sympathies and hopes of all in the Frolic centered in the Yale shell; a Yale coach had drilled and scolded and "cussed" and petted the Navy boys to victory only a few weeks before, and Ralph, if no one else, felt that all his future rested in the ability of that Yale coach "to knock some rowing sense into his block."
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