Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun surliness

1 sense of surliness

Sense 1
temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness -- (a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees")
       => ill nature -- (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)