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surliness
noun as in irascibility
Strong matches
noun as in irascibleness
Weak matches
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- short fuse
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
noun as in short fuse
Weak matches
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
noun as in temper
Strong matches
noun as in tetchiness
Strong matches
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Example Sentences
Furthermore, Housebound is serious about the ways in which its surly anti-heroine is subtly undermined by most of the people around her and even her situation itself.
The 59-year-old prime minister has a Nixonian reputation for surliness and bullying.
It was in a state of half imbecility; the most wonderful characteristic being, that all its self-will, its surliness had gone.
Turk was usually restless; Grim slept away his life in surliness.
Accustomed to these spells of moodiness, his wife made no attempt to rouse him, knowing it would only increase his surliness.
Here is a note of more human character interspersed with Borrow's diatribes upon the surliness of the Scots.
In confinement these rats are not engaging pets; they show a considerable amount of surliness and ferocity.
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On this page you'll find 265 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to surliness, such as: acerbity, anger, annoyance, crossness, dander, and excitability.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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