Ornery

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  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