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Ornery

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Adjective

1. cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

having a difficult and contrary disposition

Example Sentences:
'a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ornery

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adjective US and Canadian dialect or informal
1. 
stubborn or vile-tempered
2. 
low; treacherous
an ornery trick
3. 
ordinary

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Ornery

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adjective Informal
1. 
having an ugly or mean disposition
2. 
obstinate

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ornery

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adj. or·ner·i·er, or·ner·i·est
Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.

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