Surly

/ˈsɜːli/

Synonyms for "surly" (110 found)

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Closest matches (22)

abrupt aggressive argumentative bad-tempered bearish beastlybeetle browedbeetle-browed bilious black black-browed bluff blunt boorish brash brusque cantankerous cavalier choleric

Adjective(2 words)

blunt brusque

Noun(1 words)

bonxie

Strong matches (33)

churlish crabbed crabby cranky cross crotchety crusty curt dark dejected discourteous dour dumpish dyspeptic fractious frowning gloomy glowering glum grim

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grouchy gruff grum grumpy

Adjective(9 words)

crankier crustier crustiest curt discourteous grouchiest gruff grumpier grumpiest

Related words (55)

harsh ill-humored ill-mannered ill-natured ill-tempered irritable lowering melancholy moodish moody mopey moping mopish morose mumpish nasty obnoxious obstreperous peevish perverse

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quarrelsome rough rude saturnine scowling severe sharp short short-tempered snappish snippy splenetic sulky sullen temperamental testy touchy truculent ubiquitous ugly uncivil unfeeling ungracious unpleasant waspish

Adjective(9 words)

ill temperedjerkiest ornerier rude shirty sourer sourish ugly unfriendly

Adjective(1 words)

mean

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries

attitudecommunication styledemeanor temperament tone

More specific

7 entries

bluntness brusqueness crabbiness curtness gruffness hostility irritability

Collocations

6 entries

surly attitudesurly demeanorsurly expressionsurly responsesurly servicesurly tone

Inflections

2 entries

surlier surliest

Derivations

2 entries

surlily surliness

similar

1 entries

ill-natured

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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The food was horrible, and the waiter, surly.

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No longer mourn for me when I am dead / Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell / Give warning to the world that I am fled.

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Tom is surly, isn't he?

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The receptionist at the hotel was surly and not at all friendly.

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