ornery

How To Use ornery In A Sentence

• Sure, even the most ornery fusspot will come across something he likes when perusing the coverage, but for the most part the stuff that emerges seems to fall under one of three categories: Archive 2010-09-01
• it is unpleasant to be around an ornery man
• If Huck had felt ‘ornery’ and insignificant in the face of Providence Jim is capable of the same emotion when he recalls his shabby treatment of Elizabeth.
• Y'know, after watching Wednesday's RNC festivities, I'm rather annoyed with myself that I titled dismayingly chimpy Dubya notwithstanding, at least Fred Thompson can sometime muster up the ornery menace of an aging silverback. Ghost in the Machine
• Langford's always come off like an ornery cuss, a guy who doesn't suffer fools gladly.
• Lady Macbeth says: Wouldst thou have that Which thou call the ornery of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, Kill Ten Rats
• A courtly man with an ornery streak and a stately head of white hair, Hooper seemed typecast for the role of southern chief justice, a role he hoped to wrest from the popular Democratic incumbent, Ernest "Sonny" Hornsby. Karl Rove in a Corner
• From other interviews I'd seen, I knew Jim could make things difficult for me if he was in one of his ornery moods.
• No, she was still the prickly, ornery, far too practical person she had always been, even in matters of sentiment.
• Just to be ornery, Mike tooted again and the old man shook a fist.