Words and phrases that have a meaning related to surly: (138 results)
Often used in the same context:
sullen, grumpy, cranky, grouchy, brusque, ornery, morose, irascible, truculent, gruff, cantankerous, petulant, monosyllabic, crabby, chatty, snappish, incommunicative, humorless, peevish, amiable, lunkheaded, oafish, brusk, crotchety, affable, boorish, temperamental, taciturn, slobbish, dopey, sarcastic, bumbling, loutish, garrulous, brutish, cloddish, mouthy, hangdog, rude, snotty, thuggish, genial, cocky, malcontented, haughty, slovenly, polite, scruffy, misanthropic, whiny, moody, loquacious, dyspeptic, doltish, lovable, snarly, vengeful, stoic, smart aleck, supercilious, standoffish, curt, foulmouthed, hardhearted, jaded, smarmy, easygoing, laconic, jovial, belligerent, stubbly, irritable, unappreciative, frowny, likable, obnoxious, uncouth, talkative, smug, meek, stroppy, troublemaking, curmudgeonly, cocksure, snooty, uptight, disdainful, resentful, pugnacious, crusty, grizzled, smirky, brattish, unaffectionate, insolent, obsequious, snippy, unsmiling, twitchy, goofy, quarrelsome, untrusting, artilleryman, bastards, beast, beggar, bess, blackguard, blackguards, boors, brute, brutes, buffoon, bugger, bully, bum, bums, chinamen, sulky, natured, sheepish, diffident, churlish, goodnatured, humoured, ungracious, arrogant, dejected, reticent
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churlish, crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured, unforgiving
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Also try:ill-natured, ugly
— Nouns for surly: tone, fellow, voice, man, mood, manner, look, face, reply, expression, attitude, more...
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