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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abrupt, aggressive, argumentative, bad-tempered, bearish, beastly, beetle-browed, bilious, black, black-browed, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cantankerous, cavalier, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, dark, dejected, discourteous, dour, dumpish, dyspeptic, fractious, frowning, glowering, glum, grim, grouchy, gruff, grum, grumpy, harsh, ill-humored, ill-mannered, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irritable, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, obnoxious, obstreperous, peevish, quarrelsome, rough, rude, saturnine, scowling, severe, sharp, short, short-tempered, snappish, snippy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, temperamental, testy, touchy, truculent, ugly, uncivil, ungracious, unpleasant, waspish
Dictionary Results for surly:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
surly
    adj 1: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of
           menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn:
           surly, ugly]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Surly \Sur"ly\ (s[^u]r"l[y^]), a. [Compar. Surlier
   (s[^u]r"l[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Surliest.] [Probably from
   sir, and originally meaning, sirlike, i.e., proud. See Sir,
   and Like, a.]
   1. Arrogant; haughty. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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   2. Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe;
      sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a
      surly dog; surly language; a surly look. "That surly
      spirit, melancholy." --Shak.
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   3. Rough; dark; tempestuous.
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            Now softened into joy the surly storm. --Thomson.
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