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ornery

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or·ner·y  (ôrn-r)
adj. or·ner·i·er, or·ner·i·est
Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.
[Alteration of ordinary.]
orner·i·ness n.
ornery [ˈɔːnərɪ]
adj US and Canadian dialect or informal
1. stubborn or vile-tempered
2. low; treacherous an ornery trick
3. ordinary
[alteration of ordinary]
orneriness  n
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Adj.1.ornery - having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
crotchety, cantankerous
ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
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Blame dat man, he worries me wid dem ornery glasses o' his'n; I b'lieve he's a witch.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for -- well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat -- I hate them ornery sermons
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Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother.
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