Get to know Surly better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like ugly.
Surly meaning
- Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
- Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
- Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
Synonyms of Surly
Using Surly
- The main meaning on this page is: Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly. | Threatening, menacing, gloomy. | Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
- Useful related words include: ugly, ill-natured.
- In the example corpus, surly often appears in combinations such as: surly and, and surly, of surly.
Context around Surly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Surly
- In this selection, "surly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, besides, maybe, protagonist, silence, new and swordsman stand out and add context to how "surly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a protagonist surly was unappealing and and his surly new father. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "surly" sits close to words such as aditi, aegon and aerobics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with surly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Surly's Beer Hall is closing indefinitely on November 2nd. (10 words)
Getting your surly teens off the couch might trigger a long-term turnaround in their moods, new research suggests. (19 words)
Now, you’ll most likely be dealing with a cramped space, limited power, dodgy Wi-Fi, and maybe surly roommates. (20 words)
She's surly and cranky, as most of her thoughts are consumed with anger and worry for her son, who has become besotted with Quiteria and spends most of his time with the playwright instead of at home helping out the family. (42 words)
When Gibson was in his prime on Cardinal teams that also featured Black stars like Brock, Curt Flood and Orlando Cepeda, his reputation as an intimidating if not surly presence may have been influenced by racial issues. (37 words)
But so far nothing besides surly silence out of the white house greeted either epistle, which could end this appalling assault on a journalist and a free press in an instant – if Biden so chose. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
But so far nothing besides surly silence out of the white house greeted either epistle, which could end this appalling assault on a journalist and a free press in an instant – if Biden so chose.
Even the most bizarre turns never distract us from how deeply we end up feeling about this weird little kid and his surly new father figure out in the New Zealand bush.
He is shown amassing his loyal crew of Straw Hats as he goes, including surly swordsman Zoro (), navigator with a secret Nami (), the overly-enthusiastic Usopp (), a chef with a deadly kick.
Now, you’ll most likely be dealing with a cramped space, limited power, dodgy Wi-Fi, and maybe surly roommates.
Scott must also contend with another werewolf, Derek Hale (), who despite being rather surly and standoffish teaches Scott more about his powers.
Surly TSA agents, stomach churning in-flight turbulence, miserable customs officials, misguided guidebooks, crowded, overpriced tourist traps, potential illnesses, exorbitant currency exchange rates.
The female main character can start leveling up Fuuka earlier but will have to wait before they start hanging out with surly monk Mutatsu.
And so the players, they were just like kind of mean, and just surly for a 95-win team, they sure acted like somebody pissed in their cornflakes all the time.
Last year's decrease in the number of Surly shows was just incidental based on tour routing and artists wanting to play indoors vs outdoors, they added.
She's surly and cranky, as most of her thoughts are consumed with anger and worry for her son, who has become besotted with Quiteria and spends most of his time with the playwright instead of at home helping out the family.
Getting your surly teens off the couch might trigger a long-term turnaround in their moods, new research suggests.
Momo is withdrawn and surly with other people, but when he’s alone, he spends hours sketching lioness faces with a pen.
Peyton has always been funny, smart-mouthed and likeable, whereas Eli has often been pictured as surly and sullen faced, so much so he was oft the go-to person for internet memes.
Side one track one, “Sunday Morning”, is a wistful ballad fit for a cool European chanteuse sung by a surly Brooklynite.
So they get angry and surly and shouty about what they think should be happening but they can't make their bodies do, thanks to all the alcohol and fried food and sedentary living.
Surly's Beer Hall is closing indefinitely on November 2nd.
Surly’s Minneapolis beer hall, pizza restaurant and retail complex will shut down “indefinitely” on Nov. 2, but was also closed Wednesday.
The general consensus for the first was that as a protagonist, Surly was unappealing and his debut film's run-time was unnecessarily stretched.
Then, suddenly, Flora’s older brother, surly teenager Miles (Finn Wolfhard of “Stranger Things”) appears, expelled from boarding school and determined to make life miserable and creepy for Kate.
When Gibson was in his prime on Cardinal teams that also featured Black stars like Brock, Curt Flood and Orlando Cepeda, his reputation as an intimidating if not surly presence may have been influenced by racial issues.
Common combinations with surly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- surly and 6×
- and surly 5×
- of surly 3×
- his surly 2×
- is surly 2×
- was surly 2×
- surly but 2×
- the surly 2×