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I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUSSED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cussed
 a.  perverse; stubborn
Classic Sentence:
1  No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
3  He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a-flying.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
4  And then waltzed in and cussed himself awhile, and said it all come of him not laying late and taking his natural rest that morning, and he'd be blamed if he'd ever do it again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
5  We came in here and got our legs all tangled up in these cussed briers, and then we begin to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  I don't keep none o yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseeing; and I tell you things is seen to.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  If she'll let up on some of the roughest things, I'll smoke private and cuss private, and crowd through or bust.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  So the king let go of me, and begun to cuss that town and everybody in it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX.
9  So every one of them promised, right out and hearty, that they wouldn't cuss him no more.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII.
10  I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI.
11  You better a blame sight give yourself a good cussing, for you're the one that's entitled to it most.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX.
12  Another time they tried to go at yellocution; but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a solid good cussing, and made them skip out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
13  Politics aren't for women folks anyway, and there's going to be cussing in a minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  Yeh, I'm probably a yahoo, but by gum I do keep my independence by doing odd jobs, and that's more 'n these polite cusses like the clerks in the banks do.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  She's so cussed she always does the opposite of what you ask.
2  The coach cussed out the team for losing.
3  Potter took out a large spring-knife and cut off the dangling end of the rope and then said: "Now the cussed thing's ready, Sawbones, and you'll just out with another five, or here she stays."
4  They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words.
5  There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam -- and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft.