ornery English

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ornery

— adjective (= cantankerous) having a difficult and contrary disposition a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady — Dorothy Sayers

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cantankerous

crotchety

spiteful

mean

bitchy

wilful

wicked

vulgar

vile

venomous

venomed

stubborn

sordid

shoddy

shabby

scurvy

scurrilous

ratty

raffish

obstinate

mulish

malicious

lowdown

lowbred

low-minded

low

lewd

ill-natured

ignoble

hangdog

dogged

cussed

cross-grained

contrary

common

coarse

cheap

catty

cattish

caddish

bullheaded

beastly