surly

IPA: sˈɝɫi

adjective

Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
(obsolete) Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.

adverb

(obsolete) In an arrogant or supercilious manner.

Examples of "surly" in Sentences

I never thought that she is surly.
The single mother has a sickly, surly child.
Of particular concern is the issue of surly sheep.
People in the town thinks that he is surly and mean.
A surly man is disinclined to let go of old grudges.
He tells the surly detective he has no knowledge of the crime.
A surly boy tells the detective that the detective is unskilled.
That is something like friendship, between being obsequious and surly.
If the page is about the Psalm, the surly the words should be on there.
I called surly strangers in Ohio and hate-filled racists in Pennsylvania,
It is the surly disdain admins have developed for the obligations of process.
Sam swiped his hands through the tight curls on his head, his expression surly.
By ANN LANDI In photographs, Tim Burton looks the part of the goth filmmaker: rumpled and slightly menacing, his grizzled locks untamed, his expression surly behind a barricade of
In silence, and with an expression of surly disappointment, Noodles was regretting once more that he and his third wife, Carmen, with whom he was in the throes of a bitter divorce, were no longer on speaking terms.
But no matter what price you get on a firearm, Scott, his unnamed and nasty brother, and certain surly staff members including "Derek" always leaves me with the impression that I was either cheated or manhandled by unwashed hands.
"But no matter what price you get on a firearm, Scott, his unnamed and nasty brother, and certain surly staff members including" Derek "always leaves me with the impression that I was either cheated or manhandled by unwashed hands."
* I hadn't spent a considerable amount of time around this team since the summer of 2007, when a certain surly left fielder was taking aim at the all-time home run record, and let's suffice it to say the clubhouse is very different now.
In no way a cuddly cowboy Woody, Josh Brolin as the title surly supernatural gunslinger is a very different kind of settler dodging bullets across the wild west, or rather deep south, settling old scores and new ones that may not have even arrived,

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