Crossword-Solution: ORNERINESS
We have 3 clues for the answer “ORNERINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cantankerous state | 1 answer |
| Cantankerousness. | 1 answer |
| contrariness | 3 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAECZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ORNERINESS (5)
But I seen I was a goner, and I forgive Hank all his orneriness, fur a feller don't want to die holding grudges.
And one poor farmer and mean man, if ever there was one! Oh, Pete comes by his orneriness honestly enough.” “Oh, I hope I'll have no trouble with any neighbor,” said Hiram, hopefully.
They got together to wipe out their grudges--and sometimes they didn't need any grudge and let loose their deviltries just for pure orneriness; setting haystacks afire and such like; or, where a farmer had offended them, they would put on their silly toggery and take him out at midnight and whip him and plunder his house and chase the horses and cattle into his corn, maybe.
And then had in a final burst of wrath told Green Valley that like Sodom and Gomorrah it was doomed, that no mere man preacher could save it, that its only hope lay in Grandma Wentworth, who alone understood its miserable, petty orneriness.
But she’s not a sample of what Ardmore puts forth—don’t believe it.” “I opine she’s not a sample of any product, except orneriness,” scolded Ann, who was a good deal put out by the strange actions of Edith Phelps.
Quotes with ORNERINESS (1)
Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1947–2013).