Usually means: Unfriendly or hostile in demeanor.
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  1. surly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surly, surly: Wordnik
  7. surly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surly: Wiktionary
  9. surly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surly: Dictionary.com
  13. surly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. surly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Surly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surly: Rhymezone
  19. surly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Surly: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. surly: Free Dictionary
  23. surly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. surly: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. surly: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
adjective:  Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
adverb:  (obsolete) In an arrogant or supercilious manner.

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