surly
sur lee
- s inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
a surly waiter
- And Fox News will be broadcasting from a bar filled with increasingly surly, drunk Republicans.
- The bubonic germ is a surly one that lives in slatternly wild creatures, insects, rodents and in the filthy shambles of great cities.
- I'm not at all certain that the matches Shelly arranges for Jenna's fellow waitresses (one of them ends up with a poetry-spouting accountant, the other with the diner's surly cook .