ornery (adj.)
- aureate
- baleful
- balky
- base
- bearish
- bitchy
- bombastic
- cantankerous
- churlish
- common
- consonant
- contrary
- contumacious
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- cross-grained
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- declamatory
- defiant
- difficult
- disagreeable
- excitable
- feisty
- flowery
- fractious
- froward
- grandiloquent
- harmful
- hateful
- huffish
- huffy
- iniquitous
- invidious
- irascible
- irritable
- loud
- magniloquent
- malefic
- maleficent
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- nasty
- noxious
- obstreperous
- oratorical
- orotund
- paltry
- perverse
- plangent
- poor
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resounding
- restive
- ringing
- rotund
- round
- rubbishy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- snappish
- sonorous
- spiteful
- splenetic
- stentorian
- stuffy
- sulky
- sullen
- tatty
- testy
- ugly
- unruly
- vibrant
- vinegarish
- vinegary
- waspish
- wayward
- wicked
- wild
- wrongheaded
