orneriness

1 Harvey and his wife are born with a certain orneriness of character.

哈维和他的妻子天生性格有些乖戾。

2 In his many journeyings among strangers the boy had learned to sniff out danger and spot orneriness quickly.

3 I'm getting more and more ornery in my old age.

4 That orneriness expressed itself as a willingness to go his own way.

5 "I like Bud, with all his orneriness," she declared.

6 It seems very Moore-like, this story, both in terms of her father’s orneriness and her enjoyment at telling it.

7 But Ms. Messing’s fine performance convinces us that Rosemary has a strain of orneriness that has kept her, like Anthony, from joining in the tumultuous flow of life.

8 Schiap’s method of attack was her sheer orneriness, as if to say to society, “Don’t fence me in with your rules.”

9 An allied official whose brief includes international security matters sees increasing Russian orneriness and noncooperation next year — and even more so with a Putin presidency.

10 Roberta Bays, James Sr.’s wife of 55 years - his second wife - couldn’t resist joking about his “pure orneriness,” but also offered more serious observations about the key to her husband’s long life.

11 But I seen I was a goner, and I forgive Hank all his orneriness, fur a feller don't want to die holding grudges.

12 Despite their reputation for orneriness and having appallingly bad breath, Wasikowska said she liked the camels.

13 “And if I were a betting person, which naturally I kind of am, I would bet on American orneriness and refusal to line up,” she added.

14 She credits his long life to “the will to live,” vitamins and “sheer orneriness.”

15 So here’s my challenge to you: the next time things get a little hairy at the office, try a little laughter instead of anger, orneriness, or anxiety.

16 He had an orneriness year-round, but especially in the summer, when he worked his peach orchards daylight to dusk.

17 His compassion made an unexpected appearance when sheer orneriness inspired him to hide from the new authorities a man who later turns out to be a grand duke.

18 “I wanted to take that narrative and kind of show the orneriness of the city and why that isn’t such a bad thing.”

19 One is his contrarian spirit: the same orneriness that turned him into a scold of political correctness may now lie behind his willingness to act as a delegate for Donald Trump at the Republican Convention.

20 The Beatles had begun as John Lennon’s band, and would soon become Paul McCartney’s: Drugs and indifference and general orneriness would take Lennon far away from the collaboration that a rock group needs.

1 乖戾

cross sour crusty surly wry peevish splenetic umbrageous doggish crossly sourness verjuice

2 倔强

contrary stubborn willful refractory intractable obstinate stiff-necked hard-bitten cross-grained hard-mouthed frowardly contrarily waywardly stubbornness obstinacy perverseness waywardness contrariness asininity