ornerily

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English

Etymology

From ornery +‎ -ly.

Adverb

ornerily (comparative more ornerily, superlative most ornerily)

  1. In an ornery manner.
    • 2011, Susie Duncan Sexton, Secrets of an Old Typewriter: Stories from a Smart and Sassy Small Town Girl:
      I, being ornerily inquisitive, was forced to read The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, What Shall I Tell My Child? for my perfunctory sex education, and Sinclair Lewis's Main Street to learn how to survive peaceably living in small-town America.