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This important insight illuminates and explains responses and behavior that otherwise seem peculiar, ornery, or perverse.
But we are a notoriously ornery and self-willed flock.
No one has the inside track on which of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ornery, obstreperous, unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall-walking millions.
Robby and his men have a confrontation with an ornery steer that teaches them just how dangerous cowboy work can be.
The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word "peevish", meaning ornery or ill-tempered.
He was often described as having grown more ornery with age.
These angels are demonic and ornery and concerned that their error be found out.
An ornery male centaur whose equine portion is beautiful but whose human portion is ugly and brutish.
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.
Mickey then uses his tricks to get back at the ornery duck.
The crowd was getting ornery.
Forsyth's feistiness earned a reputation for a quick temper and for being ornery, a lover of a good argument.
She wasn't really mean, but plumb ornery.
