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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]
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