ORNERY in a Sentence

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For ORNERY, below is one of 6 sentences:
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.

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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.