
1) Bad tempered 2) Cantankerous 3) Challenging or cruel 4) Combative 5) Contumacious 6) Crabbed 7) Crotchety 8) Crotchety and cantankerous 9) Curmudgeonly 10) Cussed 11) Difficult 12) Difficult to manage 13) Downright mean 14) Hard to budge 15) Hard to get along with 16) Hard to please 17) Having a mean streak
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1) Cantankerous 2) Cranky 3) Crossasabear 4) Crotchety 5) Mean 6) Naughty
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ornery, ornerier, orneriest 1. Uncooperative and irritable. 2. Meager (stingy), whether out of poverty or lack of generosity. 3. Etymology: from about 1816, American Enlgish dialectal contraction of 'ordinary'. 'Commonplace', hence 'of poor quality, coarse, ugly.' By about 1860, the sense had evolved to being 'mean, cantankerous.' These words are...
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ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin. · stubborn: I can't do a thing with that ornery mule. · low or vile. · inferior or common; ordinary.
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