surliness
温和,温和舒适,温和度,温和的态度
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sur·li·er, sur·li·est.
- : churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter.
- : unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable: a surly old lion.
- : dark or dismal; menacing; threatening: a surly sky.
- : Obsolete. lordly; arrogant.
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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.
The 59-year-old prime minister has a Nixonian reputation for surliness and bullying.
It was in a state of half imbecility; the most wonderful characteristic being, that all its self-will, its surliness had gone.
Turk was usually restless; Grim slept away his life in surliness.
Accustomed to these spells of moodiness, his wife made no attempt to rouse him, knowing it would only increase his surliness.
Here is a note of more human character interspersed with Borrow's diatribes upon the surliness of the Scots.
In confinement these rats are not engaging pets; they show a considerable amount of surliness and ferocity.