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- adverb in a stubborn unregenerate manner
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Examples
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The kitchen was cussedly small, the windows bizarrely situated, the driveway a forbidding barrier of ice.
Undone by a house of dreams Marie Arana 2011
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Once data gets into the steel trap of the government, it can be cussedly difficult to extract it.
Archive 2009-05-24 Venky 2009
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The kitchen was cussedly small, the windows bizarrely situated, the driveway a forbidding barrier of ice.
Undone by a house of dreams Marie Arana 2011
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Once data gets into the steel trap of the government, it can be cussedly difficult to extract it.
Congress government must increase public access to data Venky 2009
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It's incredibly hard to programme World Cup-centric entertainment: until we're out, that's all anybody is interested in; once we're out, everybody wants to pretend it's not happening, while cussedly refusing to be interested in anything else.
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But the mother is so cussedly independent, he really had to insist she take our services.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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He is – to me – cussedly, maddeningly alive and interesting, but I also don't want to romanticize him.
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He had plenty of time to re-educate his cussedly outdated Republican Party and make them see this was the only way to win.
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In the hope, of course, that I'll come home, not only less green, but less cussedly disagreeable.
The Old Gray Homestead Frances Parkinson Keyes 1927
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Her heart was aching, but every moment, every word he said made her all the more cussedly determined to see the thing through, and he certainly looked better when he came out ten minutes later.
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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