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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having a difficult and contrary disposition;
- Example: "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
[syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ornery adj 1: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "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