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Definition of ornery:
Synonyms for ornery:
crotchety, bilious, bloody-minded, acid, disagreeable, balky, surly, contrary, splenetic, cantankerous, contrarious, argumentative, contentious, combative, difficult, dyspeptic, volatile, contrarian, truculent, froward, attitude, support, confrontational, quarrelsome, ill-humored, perverse, ill-natured, bearish, wayward, impossible.
Usage examples:
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And Green Valley folks are ornery enough on top and when things are going smoothly for you.
- "Green Valley", Katharine Reynolds. -
- "Judith of the Godless Valley", Honoré Willsie.
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I felt ornery enough to go off and get horned by a steer, but I reckoned I sure had to.
- "With Hoops of Steel", Florence Finch Kelly.