Sample Sentences for
ornery
(editor-reviewed)

ornery as in:  is ornery when she first wakes up

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    It would have been perfect except for that ornery crow calling away: car-car-car.  (source)
    ornery = uncooperative and complaining
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    That ornery old man upstairs is very, very hurt right now and I just can't say where he's going to land after this news gets through blowing him around.  (source)
    ornery = easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue
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    Because we didn't have a phone, the midwife called Grandma-down-the-hill, who walked up the hill, tired and ornery, and barked that it was time for Mother to go "play doctor."  (source)
    ornery = in a bad or disagreeable mood
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    "The pain gets … ornery," he said.  (source)
    ornery = disagreeable
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    But even at their orneriest, consonants were fun.†  (source)
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    He had an orneriness year-round, but especially in the summer, when he worked his peach orchards daylight to dusk.  (source)
    orneriness = crankiness (easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Hoerni, whose brilliance was equaled only by his orneryness, jumped jobs every few years, repeatedly butting heads with his business partners.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Solomon's got it at sundown, and that's the only time of day that big ox is ornery.  (source)
    ornery = easily annoyed and quick to complain and argue
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    No way I could have figured she'd pull off an alliance with the orneriest kid north of the equator.†  (source)
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    Cholly, by his habitual drunkenness and orneriness, provided them both with the material they needed to make their lives tolerable.†  (source)
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    In Mqhekezweni there was a tribesman with an ornery old pig.  (source)
    ornery = mean-spirited or disagreeable
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    You is de lowdownest orneriest hound dat was ever pup'd into dis worl'—en I's 'sponsible for it!†  (source)
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    He wasn't a huge shark, but what he lacked in size he made up for in pure orneriness.†  (source)
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