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Ornerily

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an ornery manner.

    "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."

Etymology

From ornery + -ly.

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