surliness

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sur·ly

(sûr′lē)

adj. sur·li·er, sur·li·est

1. Sullenly ill-humored; gruff.

2. Threatening, as of weather conditions; ominous: surly clouds filled the sky.

3. Obsolete Arrogant; domineering.

[Middle English sirly, masterful, lordly, from sir, lord; see sir.]

sur′li·ly adv.

sur′li·ness n.

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Noun

surliness - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"

pettishness, snappishness, biliousness, peevishness, irritability, temper

ill nature - a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition

querulousness - the quality of being given to complaining

Translations

فَظاظَه، إكْفِهْرار المِزاج

nevrlost

grovhed

önuglyndi

surliness

[ˈsɜːlɪnɪs] N → hosquedad f, mal humor m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

surliness

n → Verdrießlichkeit f, → Missmutigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

surliness

[ˈsɜːlɪnɪs] n → scontrosità

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

surly

(ˈsəːli) adjective

bad-tempered or rude.

ˈsurliness noun

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He came home with his manners a good deal improved; he had lost his surliness and brusqueness, and was rather pleasantly soft and smooth, now; he was furtively, and sometimes openly, ironical of speech, and given to gently touching people on the raw, but he did it with a good-natured semiconscious air that carried it off safely, and kept him from getting into trouble.

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The newsmonger is of the number, but his manner is not quite hearty--there is something of surliness in his compliments.

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Tom no longer wondered at the habitual surliness of his associates; nay, he found the placid, sunny temper, which had been the habitude of his life, broken in on, and sorely strained, by the inroads of the same thing.

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She had been ashamed, before, merely of Billy's inhospitality, and surliness, and unfairness.

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'That,' returned the landlord, a little brought down from his dignity by the stranger's surliness, 'is a Maypole story, and has been any time these four-and-twenty years.

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Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question.

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Camp takes pains to refrain from onscreen violence during "Benji: Off the Leash!" Then again, there's no real need for explicit mayhem: Kendrick plays Hatchett with more than enough surliness to suggest that, while the audience isn't looking, the dog-breeder truly is a mean SOB to his intimidated wife (Christy Summerhays) and son.

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There were no suicide bombers; no alarms; not even any surliness, by all accounts, from local Arabs towards persons holding passports that would have identified them as members of the `Axis of Good'.

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WALLACE RONEY No Room For Argument (Stretch): I'm sure he's a very nice man really but, having witnessed him leave the stage prematurely during a Chick Corea concert, I have always nurtured this nagging suspicion that Wallace Roney has taken on Miles Davis's surliness along with his trumpet style.

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Forget the reputation for surliness he may have built up.

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Both actors are well served by Sternfeld's sharp ear for dialogue and his grasp of the awkward surliness and reticence of youth.

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I have often remarked that I would embrace any day the gooey insincerity of the Yanks ahead of the genuine surliness of the Brits when it comes to service.