When he lost the vote "out of sheer cussedness voted for Cumberland Gap" as the proposed site.

Trip fought back, maintaining a handhold on the door out of sheer cussedness.

Lwaxana Troi's sheer cussedness got her through the occupation of Betazed in one piece.

But these Knicks have come back out of sheer cussedness in the past, and Van Gundy staggered to his feet midway through the third period.

You would have thought that a ship so full of deadly tricks would run herself ashore some day out of sheer cussedness.

He was now so tired that only sheer cussedness kept him going.

Most coaches of schools on probation stick it out from sheer cussedness.

It was what you would say was sheer cussedness.

Graft, corruption, hidebound tradition, and sheer cussedness on the part of the bureaucracy seemed set to prevent any chance of reform.

"You were probably running on autopilot at that point--autopilot and sheer cussedness."