ornery
or-ner-y / ôr-nə-rē
adjective 1. cranky; ill-tempered; disagreeable The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us. Philip Yancey, 1949 – 2. stubborn What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. Eddie Pepitone, 1958 -