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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

Appears in the definition of:
churlish, crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured, unforgiving

Synonyms:
ill-natured, ugly

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— Nouns for surly: tone, fellow, voice, man, mood, manner look, face, reply, expression, attitude, more...

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