Usually means: Hostility or grumpiness in attitude.
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  1. surliness: Merriam-Webster
  2. surliness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surliness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. surliness: Vocabulary.com
  5. surliness: Wordnik
  6. surliness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. surliness: Wiktionary
  8. surliness: Dictionary.com
  9. Surliness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. surliness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. surliness: Rhymezone
  12. Surliness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. surliness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. surliness: FreeDictionary.org
  15. surliness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. surliness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. surliness: Legal dictionary

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  1. surliness: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (surliness)

▸ noun:  The property of being surly.

Similar:
snappishness, pettishness, peevishness, biliousness, irritability, temper, sulkiness, sullenness, insuavity, sassiness, more...

Opposite:
amiability, affability, geniality, friendliness

Types:
grumpiness, ill temper, grouchiness, snappishness, irritability, touchiness, bad mood, more...

Adjectives:
certain, utmost, general, habitual, rugged, usual, same, former, invulnerable, very, brusque

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Similar:
snappishness, pettishness, peevishness, biliousness, irritability, temper, sulkiness, sullenness, insuavity, sassiness, more...

Opposite:
amiability, affability, geniality, friendliness

Types:
grumpiness, ill temper, grouchiness, snappishness, irritability, touchiness, bad mood, more...

Adjectives:
certain, utmost, general, habitual, rugged, usual, same, former, invulnerable, very, brusque



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