She wasn't really mean, but plumb ornery.
Forsyth's feistiness earned a reputation for a quick temper and for being ornery, a lover of a good argument.
The crowd was getting ornery.
Mickey then uses his tricks to get back at the ornery duck.
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.
An ornery male centaur whose equine portion is beautiful but whose human portion is ugly and brutish.
These angels are demonic and ornery and concerned that their error be found out.
He was often described as having grown more ornery with age.
