[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ornery
     adj : having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
           and venomous-tongued old lady"- dorothy sayers syn: cantankerous,
            crotchety
see also:
cantankerous crotchety 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

90 moby thesaurus words for "ornery":
   aureate, baleful, balky, base, bearish, bitchy, bombastic, breachy,
   cankered, cantankerous, churlish, common, consonant, contrary,
   contumacious, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety,
   crusty, cussed, declamatory, defiant, difficult, disagreeable,
   euphuistic, excitable, feisty, flowery, fractious, froward,
   grandiloquent, harmful, hateful, huffish, huffy,
   impatient of control, iniquitous, invidious, irascible, irritable,
   loud, magniloquent, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign,
   malignant, mean, nasty, noxious, obstreperous, oratorical, orotund,
   paltry, perverse, plangent, poor, recalcitrant, refractory,
   resounding, restive, ringing, rotund, round, rubbishy, shoddy,
   sleazy, snappish, sonorous, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic,
   stentorian, stuffy, sulky, sullen, tatty, testy, ugly, unruly,
   vibrant, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward, wicked, wild,
   wrongheaded

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