Some sentence examples which use the word 'ornery'
I don't remember my parents. Sometimes I don't think I ever had any. No siblings, no friends. I was … different. Always different. Scared most people away. Probably a good thing, because I've always had a rather ornery streak.
The doctor told Dean his stepfather was too ornery to suffer any lasting effects from his ordeal.
Take them all around, they 're a mighty ornery lot.