ornery in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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It's harsher in sound, and darker and more ornery in nature.
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With one-half of the total score dependent on the horse, riders want to climb on a tough, and ornery, steed.
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Never mind the fact that she was incredibly ornery.
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Most accounts said he was ornery, tight-fisted, and untrusting of banks and lawyers.
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In a way, it's daring of the playwright to let her protagonist be so 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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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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It's just they put out too many ornery, or if not downright weak tracks on indifferent albums of late.
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Like most authentic family weddings, things deteriorated after a few drinks, and by the afterparty everybody was drunk and ornery.
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The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word "peevish", meaning ornery or ill-tempered.
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