| Jerry, with rare orneriness, pointed out that Victor had never clearly explained how to navigate. |
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| The shorter and colder days are causing a setting-in of impending-winter orneriness around the house. |
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| The movie has a surprising amount of joking and New Orleans mischief and orneriness. |
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| This was a sop perhaps to his constituents, who pride themselves on the orneriness of Vermont and already have another independent, Bernie Sanders, once the socialist mayor of Burlington, in the House. |
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| We are brought, with elegance and style, with dry wit and orneriness, to elegy. |
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| But it's his feel for family that makes this novel and his appreciation for orneriness keeps the sentimentality at bay. |
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| The post-election gloom of the nation's leading Republicans has yielded to a mood of orneriness akin to that of sports fans convinced that their team has lost the big game on a botched call. |
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| This is a factor in remaining steady to shot or halting on command, when temptation or orneriness overcomes their training. |
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