Cussed

Definition: Cussed

Cussed

Adjective

1. Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cussed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Cussed

Sullenness

Cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed.

You cussed! You said the B-Word (Jack; writing credit: James DeMonaco; Gary Nadeau)

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Books

• When the Heavens Frowned: Maligned, Cussed, Discussed and Much Beloved Texas Weather Man (reference)

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Albanian

kokëfortë (balky, bullheaded, contrary, dogged, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, impracticable, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, stickler, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, urgent, wayward, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), i mallkuar (accursed, accurst, bloody, confounded, cursed, damning, darn, unblessed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked), инат (balky, baulky, mulish, obstinacy, obstinate, rusty, stiff necked, stubborn, stubbornness). (various references)

Czech

zakletý (enchanted). (various references)

Farsi 

منفور (Hateful, Loathloth, Obnoxious, Outcast, Scurvy, Ungracious, Unpopular), ملعون (Cursed, Execrable, Foul, Unblessed, Unblest), نفرین شده (Doggone). (various references)

French

juré. (various references)

German

verflucht (accursed, bloody, blooming, confounded, confoundedly, cursed, curses, damn, damned, hexes, infernal). (various references)

Greek 

στριμμένοσ (captious, churlish, crabbed, crotchety, squiggly, surly), πεισματάρησ (bull-headed, contrary, dogged, mulish, obstinate, ornery, spiteful, stubborn, wilful). (various references)

Hungarian

megátalkodott (froward, handful, impenitent, peevish, perverse), nyakas (bullet-headed, contrary, headstrong, stiff necked, stubborn, unruly), komisz (nasty, ornery, shabby, villainous, wicked). (various references)

Italian

perverso (perverse), maledetto (accursed, accurst, blasted, bloody, confounded, cursed, damned, deuced, devilishly, hexes). (various references)

Manx

noi-vreihagh (difficult, malgrained), cughtee, correydank (bad-tempered, crotchety, peevish). (various references)

Pig Latin

ussedcay.(various references)

Portuguese

maldito (accursed, accurst, bally, blasted, cursed, darned, dratted, pesky, ruddy, unblessed). (various references)

Romanian

proclet (accused, awful, damned, terrible), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, damned, darn, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel), îndãrãtnic (indomitable, obdurate, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed, restive, self willed, stubborn, stubbornly, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

упрямый (asinine, balky, baulky, bolshy, contrary, cross-grained, dogged, dour, froward, hardbitten, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, pig-headed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff necked, stiff-necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, damn, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory, reprobate), nastran (crotchety, extravagant, kinky, oddish, queer, screwy, wrongheaded). (various references)

Spanish

terco (contrary, dogged, dour, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, self-opinionated, stiff necked, stolid, stout, stubborn, tough). (various references)

Swedish

jäkla (bally, blasted, blooming, cursed, damn, deuced, devilish, dratted, lousy, ruddy), fördömd (blasted, cursed, damned, lost), envis (be obstinate, contrary, dogged, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded), enveten (contrary, dogged, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Turkish

ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), lanetli (accursed, accurst, cursed, damnable, damned, dratted, effing), inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukrainian

клятий (dratted), ненависний (accursed, accurst, hateable, hateful, invidious, odious), проклятий (accursed, accurst, bloody, blushing, cursed, damned, infernal, something). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cứng cổ (bullet-headed, fractious, hard-handed, opinionated), cứng đầu (contrarious, fractious, hard-handed), bị chửi rủa ngoan cố. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cussed": cussedly, cussedness, cussednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "cussed": caucussed, concussed, defocussed, discussed, focussed, hocussed, misfocussed, overfocussed, percussed, prefocussed, rediscussed, refocussed, succussed, undiscussed, unfocussed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cussed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acussed, caussed, cesse, Cisse, Cossec, Coussey, csuse, cuased, cuse, Cussen, Cussi, cussid, Cussler, sussed, Yussef. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: duces, scuds.

-2 letters: cess, cuds, cued, cues, cuss, duce, dues, ecus, scud, secs, suds, sued, sues, used, uses.

-3 letters: cud, cue, due, ecu, eds, ess, sec, sue, use.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, us.

+1 letter: duchess, escudos, seduces.

+2 letters: censused, crusades, cuspides, cussedly, custodes, discuses, ductless, focussed, hocussed, schussed, secludes, seducers, subcodes, subduces, succeeds, suicides, sundecks.

+3 letters: caucussed, chorussed, cloudless, coassumed, concussed, crudeness, crusaders, crusadoes, cuirassed, curbsides, cursedest, custodies, decussate, defocuses, destructs, discourse, discussed, discusser, discusses, duchesses, lucidness, muscadels, muscadets, percussed, rediscuss, schedules, shelducks, succussed, surceased, suspected, uncrossed.