surliness / ˈsɜr li /

温和温和舒适温和度温和的态度

surliness 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

sur·li·er, sur·li·est.

  1. churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter.
  2. unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable: a surly old lion.
  3. dark or dismal; menacing; threatening: a surly sky.
  4. Obsolete. lordly; arrogant.

surliness 近义词

surliness

等同于 temper

surliness

等同于 irascibility

surliness

等同于 irascibleness

surliness

等同于 short fuse

surliness

等同于 tetchiness

更多surliness例句

  1. 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.
  2. The 59-year-old prime minister has a Nixonian reputation for surliness and bullying.
  3. It was in a state of half imbecility; the most wonderful characteristic being, that all its self-will, its surliness had gone.
  4. Turk was usually restless; Grim slept away his life in surliness.
  5. Accustomed to these spells of moodiness, his wife made no attempt to rouse him, knowing it would only increase his surliness.
  6. Here is a note of more human character interspersed with Borrow's diatribes upon the surliness of the Scots.
  7. In confinement these rats are not engaging pets; they show a considerable amount of surliness and ferocity.