(Usually curstness.) Malignancy or perversity of disposition, ill temper, crabbedness; fierceness, savageness; virulence (of poison). Obsolete or ar…

Crookedness, perversity or refractoriness of disposition, fractiousness (obsolete); ill-nature; harshness; asperity or sourness of temper.

perverseness; obstinacy.

Currish condition or quality.

Originally: †bad temper, surliness, sullenness; sullen obstinacy (obsolete). Now: persistence, stubbornness; resoluteness. Cf. dogged, adj. 1b it's d…

Violent ill-nature or ill-humour; irritable or peevish temper. With possessive pronouns, etc.

Unaccommodating disposition; want of complaisance. Obsolete.

figurative. Crabbed curtness of manner or temper.

†(a) lateness, tardiness (obsolete); (b) the quality of being dour; severity, stubbornness, sullenness.

Obstinacy, stubbornness; cantankerousness; contrariness. Cf. cussed, adj. 3.

Miserliness, churlishness.

Want of grace. of mind: ungracious condition or character. rare.

dialect. Bad temper; disagreeableness.