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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger;
- Example: "his temper was well known to all his employees"
[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]