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[OAR-nah-ree] 
1. having a difficult, mean-spirited, ugly and contrary disposition; cantankerous: "My whole family adored you, honey, except for Aunt Jane, but she's so ornery she curses when the sun comes out."
noun form: orneriness
Origin:
Approximately 1816; dialectal contraction of English, 'ordinary.' In action:
"Kennedy, red-faced and ornery, chuffed and shouted his way through the week. 'The current GOP bill is a sham, a step back,' he said. 'It gives a false sense of security, it isn't worth the paper it's printed on.'
Scores of patient-advocate and medical-professional groups -- nearly everyone in health care except those who control it --backed Kennedy's bill. The health-insurance and business lobbies supported the Republican bill. The insurance industry is said to have spent $100 million lobbying against managed-care reform in the past several months -- a modest slice of the $1.5 billion in profits reported by the five largest health insurers last year."
Arthur Allen. "Patients Rights DOA: A bill favored by insurance companies and managed care providers wins in the Senate." Salon.com (July 16, 1999).
"All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised."
Mark Twain (1835�1910). U.S. author. Huck, in Huckleberry Finn (1884).
"'Desert Solitaire,' by Edward Abbey. 'This is a fiery, passionate evocation of the beauty of the Southwestern desert. The book is balanced almost perfectly between the author's disgust at the perpetual drive to develop and commodify wild nature and the deep stillness and calm created by immersion in the desert landscape. There are many books of this sort (personal essays describing some natural setting, with an environmental/preservation bent), but along with John Muir, this is one of the first and best. Abbey never takes himself too seriously and lets his own ornery, eccentric personality shine through, which puts him a leg up on all the solemn Gaia-heads eager to lecture us about the Earth.'
Don George (excerpted from reader's comments). "The top travel books: What are the best travel books of the century? The readers respond." Salon.com (May 26, 1999).
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