Meaning of ORNERY
Pronunciation: | | 'owrnuree
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| Definition: | | [adj] having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers |
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| Synonyms: | | cantankerous, crotchety, ill-natured |
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| Related Terms: | | 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 |
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