ornery

Although the economy by most evidence is healthy, and the stock market is buoyant, it’s no surprise voters are ornery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But O’Neill’s 1921 drama poses ornery challenges for an actress—and not just because Greta Garbo immortalized the role in her first “talkie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

In a talk-back at the end of the show, Ullett admitted that he quite liked Berkoff, ornery though he was, and that he respected Friedkin’s stature as one of the great film directors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Quesada said she’d surprise him at times with funny little stories “about her more ornery days.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

I apologized for being ornery and for upsetting him.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

Brustein’s universalism grew ornerier and more claustrophobic with age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

He was mebby thinking how much ornerier that would make the hull scheme.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Pitching in the brilliant sunshine July sunshine with temperatures in the low 80s, the orneriest of the Mariners starters delivered an outstanding performance in a season filled with them.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

In a family with six children, Bob wasn’t the oldest Stoops child - that title belongs to brother Ron Jr. - but Kathy says Bob was the edgiest, the feistiest, the orneriest.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 4, 2017

“Colleen was the orneriest one in the pool, but boy, could she swim!”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 7, 2017

Stradlin departed the world's orneriest rock band in 1991, and shows up now with a loose-jointed, slaphappy and rather neat & debut.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wasn’t ’bout to sneak no looks at Miss Daponte; ’twas well knowed that ’long with being the strongest woman in Possum Moan, she was also the orneriest one.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis