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ornery
  1. (Appalachia) Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable.
  2. (humorous) Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.
  3. (obsolete) Commonplace, inferior.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. irritable, cantankerous, testy, grumpy, grouchy, surly, crabby, disagreeable, splenetic, cranky, dyspeptic, bilious, crusty, bearish, quarrelsome, sour, acid, mean, obstinate, unfriendly, difficult, nasty, uncooperative, awkward, vicious, contemptible, rotten, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, ill-humored, bloody-minded, hard-nosed, cross, crabbed, irascible, touchy, peevish, petulant, tetchy, crotchety, fractious, prickly, waspish, ratty, chippy, snappish, choleric, pettish … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Most afternoons, it's the two older players who bicker the most, like ornery retirees on a park bench.”
      “In the face of modernity, there's a thrill in watching an ornery cuss who clings to the old ways.”
      “No, she was still the prickly, ornery, far too practical person she had always been, even in matters of sentiment.”
ornerier
  1. comparative form of ornery: more ornery
  2. Synonyms:
      3. testier, grumpier, grouchier, surlier, crabbier, crankier, crustier, sourer, meaner, unfriendlier, difficulter, nastier, awkwarder, viciouser, rottener, worse-tempered, more irritable, more cantankerous, more disagreeable, more splenetic, more dyspeptic, more bilious, more bearish, more quarrelsome, more acid, more obstinate, more uncooperative, more contemptible, more ill-tempered, more ill-natured, more ill-humored, more bloody-minded, more irascible, crosser, touchier, chippier, more petulant, more crabbed, more peevish, more fractious, pricklier, tetchier, crotchetier, more choleric, more waspish, more pettish, snappier, more snappish, rattier, more short-tempered … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Though the wrinkles and giant freckles suck, I'm ornerier, smarter, happier and better off than I've ever been.”
orneriest
  1. superlative form of ornery: most ornery
  2. Synonyms:
      3. testiest, grumpiest, grouchiest, surliest, crabbiest, crankiest, crustiest, sourest, meanest, unfriendliest, difficultest, nastiest, awkwardest, viciousest, rottenest, worst-tempered, most irritable, most cantankerous, most disagreeable, most splenetic, most dyspeptic, most bilious, most bearish, most quarrelsome, most acid, most obstinate, most uncooperative, most contemptible, most ill-tempered, most ill-natured, most ill-humored, most bloody-minded, most irascible, crossest, touchiest, chippiest, most petulant, most crabbed, most peevish, most fractious, prickliest, tetchiest, crotchetiest, most choleric, most waspish, most pettish, snappiest, most snappish, rattiest, most short-tempered … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “If the Booty Crew, the orneriest bunch of cusses ever to sling a keyboard in the name of quality climbing gear, had a motto, that would be it.”
      “The decision was just one of many controversial moments that plagued the orneriest, most divisive general in the rebel army.”
      “I hauled it over here with four of the orneriest mules that ever flapped an ear at white men.”
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