Ornery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable.
  • adj. Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.
  • adj. Commonplace, inferior.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Ordinary; common; mean; coarse; ugly: a term of depreciation, ranging from mild disapproval to great contempt.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition
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