ORNERY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for ORNERY, such as:
1. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.
2. The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.
3. My first impression of the taxi driver was that he was ornery, but then he explained that he just had a bad day.
2. The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.
3. My first impression of the taxi driver was that he was ornery, but then he explained that he just had a bad day.
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Meanings and Examples of ORNERY
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ornery
a. disagreeable and contrary in disposition; mean or coarse
Classic Sentence:
1 The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.
2 Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.
3 I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.
4 The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling.
5 He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner.
Example Sentence:
1 My first impression of the taxi driver was that he was ornery, but then he explained that he just had a bad day.