ornery in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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He was often described as having grown more ornery with age.
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The main course this week was beef brisket, an ornery cut of meat that can take up to 12 hours to cook.
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You could miss your flight home because some ornery little volcano has decided to take out the main bridge on your road.
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Each of the six rides he makes -- eight seconds aboard a large ornery animal -- could earn him $12,000.
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If they insist on being ornery, the bloc could, for all practical purposes, abolish its consensus procedure and start making majority decisions.
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His problem, it turns out, is that he is an unscrupulous, treacherous, selfish, greedy, lying, thieving scoundrel, and at the same time an irascible, ornery, cantankerous, ill-mannered, bad-tempered old grouch.
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Most accounts said he was ornery, tight-fisted, and untrusting of banks and lawyers.
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Never mind the fact that she was incredibly ornery.
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The ornery basketball star sparked a debate about whether an athlete's personal character should be separated from his performance.
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It's harsher in sound, and darker and more ornery in nature.
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