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Definition
quick to get annoyed, complain, argue, and be uncooperative
- And I hate to say it but Adah is just as ornery and bent on destruction, in her own slowpoke way.Book 2 — Revelation (59% in)
- And Adah of course play-acted at not talking for years and years, merely to be ornery.Book 6 — Song of the Children (15% in)
There are no more uses of "ornery" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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