ornery

ornery
adj Informal.
1. cantankerous, surly, irascible, iracund, crabbed, crabby; ill-natured, unfriendly, obnoxious, choleric; ill-tempered, bad-tempered, short-tempered, quick-tempered; brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish, snappish, snarling; cross, feisty, huffy, irritable, cranky, peevish, bilious, testy, touchy, tetchy; argumentative, quarrelsome, fractious, contentious, disagreeable, Inf. bitchy, Inf. ugly; uncivil, sharp, abrupt, curt, short, terse, blunt, rough.
2. stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, mule-headed, pigheaded, bullheaded, bullish, headstrong, obstinate; willful, self-willed, contrary, perverse, wrongheaded, cross-grained, balky, uncooperative, U.S. Inf. notionate, Inf. cussed, Archaic. untoward; froward, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; ungovernable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, difficult, restive, unruly, incorrigible.
3. base, low, vile, mean, bad, mean-spirited, base-spirited, Inf. low-down, Sl. low-down-dirty-rotten.

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