Word Meanings - CURSTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. Shak.

Related words: (words related to CURSTNESS)

• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• PEEVISHNESS
  The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
• SURLINESS
  The quality or state of being surly.