Surliness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Surliness \Sur"li*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being surly.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  surliness
       n : a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was
           well known to all his employees" [syn: {temper}, {biliousness},
            {irritability}, {peevishness}, {pettishness}, {snappishness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "surliness":
     abruptness, aggressiveness, bearishness, beastliness, bluntness,
     boorishness, bouderie, brashness, brusqueness, brusquerie,
     churlishness, crustiness, curtness, dejection, dumpishness,
     glumness, grimness, gruffness, grumness, harshness, melancholy,
     moodiness, moodishness, mopishness, moroseness, nastiness,
     roughness, severity, sharpness, shortness, sulkiness, sullenness,
     truculence