Synonyms of surly

1 Syllable

gruff, glum, cross, brief, dour, rude, grim

2 Syllables

crabbier, grumpy, snarly, huffy, crabby, waspish, dourer, chuffy, waspy, fractious, crabbed, sulky, grousing, peevish, mumpish, briefer, gruffer, broody, crustier, chuffier, boorish, testy, crosser, sullen, ruthless, touchy, briefest, grouchier, crusty, grouchy, bearish, touchier, churlish, grimmer, huffier, ruder, rudest, gruffest, grumpier, grimmest, brusque, ugly, touchiest, huffish

3 Syllables

hostile, discourteous, ungracious, crotchety, ornery, uncivil, uncordial, unfriendly, unfeeling, morose, resentful, perverse

4 Syllables

ill-natured, ill-mannered, disagreeable, saturnine, ill-tempered, irascible, bad-tempered, atrabilious, ill-humored, ironhearted, unamiable, perversive, tenebrific, irritable, tempersome, curmudgeonly, unneighborly

6 Syllables

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