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Example sentences for: ornery

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Call him a roguish tribal chieftain or an ornery sociopath, he is what he is.
They are difficult, since they deal with difficult subjects: the complex interactions amongst those ornery creatures called "people."
By the 1920s, the spelling had regularized to ornery , and the meaning had degenerated to `disagreeable' or `cantankerous.
If you missed Heston's NRA sound bite, click . You can read some of his ornery comments about political correctness .
They gave the root word as ornery , admitting no variants.