[responsivevoice] surly [/responsivevoice] [ sur-lee ]
The word of the day is ‘surly.’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Gruff
2. Bearish
3. Bad-tempered
4. Unfriendly
1. Hindi – Asabhy
2. Spanish – Hosco
3. French – Hargneux
4. Mandarin – Sū lǐ
1. “You have done very well,” remarked the Brabanter in a surly voice.
2. She was a Socitaire of the Comdie, old, spiteful, and surly.
3. His tone was surly and hostile, but it provoked no resentment in me now.
4. He was well-educated, but of a surly disposition and insubordinate.
5. These, my soldiers, were a little while ago as wild and surly as you are now.
boorish, dour, irritable, morose, rude, sullen, testy, ugly, brusque, churlish, cross, crusty, curmudgeonly, discourteous, fractious, glum, grouchy, ill-mannered, ill-natured, perverse, saturnine, sulky, uncivil, ungracious, bad-tempered, grumpy, crotchety, prickly, cantankerous, irascible, short-tempered, splenetic, choleric, dyspeptic, bilious, curt, gruff, blunt, crabby, morose, sullen, sour, unfriendly, unpleasant, scowling, disrespectful, chippy etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
bright, cheerful, happy, kind, nice, pleasant, polite, refined, sophisticated, gentle, friendly, good-natured
Quotation:
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behaviour is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
Greg Boyle
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