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surliness

surly | American Dictionary

surly
adjective
us/ˈsɜr·li/
not wanting to please you or to be friendly:
The clerks in this post office are sullen, surly, and inefficient.

Examples of surly

surly
Another very deviant child was surly and extremely resistant as an accompaniment to her fearful, shy behavior.
In the wake of this experience, the surly silence and social compromises of the 1970s were rational reactions.
Napoleonic system met local needs, however much its material demands provoked violent resistance or surly resentment during the war years.
I did not think my successor would be so surly as not to keep them or make sure that they would not have power.
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That surly staff might be replaced by people who welcome our custom?
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It was a parade of vomiting, rudeness and surly, aggressive behaviour.
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I do not put forward these arguments either as a demand for a handout for our country or in any surly, resentful or antagonistic spirit.
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We should welcome that fact and not be surly about it.
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Their reaction is not only mixed but very surly.
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There are two rather surly looking men with hats on with their thumbs down and two smiling young ladies with their thumbs up.
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Passengers would be shepherded by surly, unco-operative and uninformative staff into a collection of cattle trucks, and would not be delivered to their destination in anything remotely approaching their timetable.
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Surly the practice of government by a host of regulations tends to leave out the one essential in government—indeed, its essential basis—which is the good will of the people.
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Surly that is the real danger facing the delivery of mail, regardless of where you set the upper limit, regardless of how you define the reserved sector!
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Alongside this we have a conspicuous decline in the health service, the homeless condemned to costly, yet sordid, bed and breakfast accommodation, and our teachers aggrieved, surly, and suspicious.
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He is losing the old cement of courtesy; he is becoming surly and irritable, and now we are building fiats and living like insects in them.
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Examples of surly