ornery

2 definitions found

ornery - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

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