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surly 音標拼音: [s'ɚli] a. 不和藹的,無禮的,板面孔的,陰沉的,粗暴的,乖戾的 不和藹的,無禮的,板面孔的,陰沈的,粗暴的,乖戾的 surly adj 1: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; " a surly waiter"; " an ugly frame of mind" [ synonym: { surly}, { ugly}] Surly \ Sur" ly\ ( s[^ u] r" l[ y^]), a. [ Compar. { Surlier} ( s[^ u] r" l[ i^]*[~ e] r); superl. { Surliest}.] [ Probably from sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i. e., proud. See { Sir}, and { Like}, a.] 1. Arrogant; haughty. [ Obs.] -- Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Gloomily morose; ill- natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. " That surly spirit, melancholy." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Rough; dark; tempestuous. [ 1913 Webster] Now softened into joy the surly storm. -- Thomson. [ 1913 Webster] 81 Moby Thesaurus words for " surly": abrupt, aggressive, argumentative, bad- tempered, bearish, beastly, beetle- browed, bilious, black, black- browed, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cantankerous, cavalier, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, dark, dejected, discourteous, dour, dumpish, dyspeptic, fractious, frowning, glowering, glum, grim, grouchy, gruff, grum, grumpy, harsh, ill- humored, ill- mannered, ill- natured, ill- tempered, irritable, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, obnoxious, obstreperous, peevish, quarrelsome, rough, rude, saturnine, scowling, severe, sharp, short, short- tempered, snappish, snippy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, temperamental, testy, touchy, truculent, ugly, uncivil, ungracious, unpleasant, waspish
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