ORNERY in a Sentence

Learn ORNERY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORNERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ornery
 a.  disagreeable and contrary in dispositionn; mean or coarse
Classic Sentence:
1  The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
2  Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
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.