Definitionadj. having a difficult and contrary disposition
Last update: September 8, 2017
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I don't remember my parents. Sometimes I don't think I ever had any. No siblings, no friends. I was … different. Always different. Scared most people away. Probably a good thing, because I've always had a rather ornery streak. [adjective]
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The doctor told Dean his stepfather was too ornery to suffer any lasting effects from his ordeal. [noun]
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He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner. [adjective]
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The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling. [adjective]
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Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.' [adjective]
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I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.' [adjective]
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The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery. [adjective]
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