Crossword-Solution: ORNERY 6 letters, 87 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There was empty drygoods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chawing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching—a mighty ornery lot.

But this time I somehow got to talking to him about his wife and young ones; and by-and-by he says: “What makes me feel so bad dis time ’uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on de bank like a whack, er a slam, while ago, en it mine me er de time I treat my little ’Lizabeth so ornery.

But I soon give up that notion for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced.

The more I studied about this, the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling.

That ornery hound kept coming and coming till he had begged back all the camels and had the whole hundred.