surly

IPA: sˈɝɫi

adjective

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

adverb

  • (obsolete) In an arrogant or supercilious manner.
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Examples of "surly" in Sentences

  • I called surly strangers in Ohio and hate-filled racists in Pennsylvania,
  • 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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