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[syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Surliness \Sur"li*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being surly.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
surliness
n 1: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper
was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper,
biliousness, irritability, peevishness,
pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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