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Definition of to be ornery in English English dictionary
- ornery
- Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way
- ornery
- Commonplace, inferior
- ornery
- having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
- ornery
- disapproval If you describe someone as ornery, you mean that they are bad-tempered, difficult, and often do things that are mean. The old lady was still being ornery, but at least she had consented to this visit. = mean. behaving in an unreasonable and often angry way, especially by doing the opposite of what people want you to do (ordinary)
- ornery
- Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable
- ornery
- {s} stubborn; bad-tempered; mean
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to be or·ne·ryTurkish pronunciation
tı bi ôrnıriPronunciation
/tə bē ˈôrnərē/ /tə biː ˈɔːrnɜriː/
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