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What does ornery mean?

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Adjective
  1. (Appalachia) Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable.
  2. (humorous) Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.
  3. (obsolete) Commonplace, inferior.
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No, she was still the prickly, ornery, far too practical person she had always been, even in matters of sentiment.
From other interviews I'd seen, I knew Jim could make things difficult for me if he was in one of his ornery moods.
So he sends a posse of ornery opossum lovers out into the bog for a little airboat ambush.
Sure, she was an ornery old witch, and maybe I wanted to kill her myself, but I wouldn't have the nerve to actually do it.
While Spike Lee favourite Davis's deadpan performance as JFK is great, Campbell's portrayal of the ornery old Elvis steals the film.
Langford's always come off like an ornery cuss, a guy who doesn't suffer fools gladly.

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