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Adjective ornery has 1 sense

• ornery(s = adj.all) cantankerous, crotchety - having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"
Derived form noun orneriness₁

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THESAURUS

ornery

aureate, baleful, balky, base, bearish, bitchy, bombastic, breachy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, common, consonant, contrary, contumacious, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, declamatory, defiant, difficult, disagreeable, euphuistic, excitable, feisty, flowery, fractious, froward, grandiloquent, harmful, hateful, huffish, huffy, impatient of control, iniquitous, invidious, irascible, irritable, loud, magniloquent, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, noxious, obstreperous, oratorical, orotund, paltry, perverse, plangent, poor, recalcitrant, refractory, resounding, restive, ringing, rotund, round, rubbishy, shoddy, sleazy, snappish, sonorous, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, stentorian, stuffy, sulky, sullen, tatty, testy, ugly, unruly, vibrant, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward, wicked, wild, wrongheaded

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