surliness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]surliness (usually uncountable, plural surlinesses)
- The property of being surly.
- 1979 August 4, Carl Wittman, “Streets of San Francisco”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
- There has been an escalation of police harassment in the gay community: five brutal busts at the Crystal Hotel; the closing of sex clubs without notice; beatings of women outside Amelia's Bar in January and surliness and assaults against lesbians by off duty officers at Peg's Club later.
Translations
[edit]sullenness — see sullenness