surliness (n.)

• abruptness
• aggressiveness
• beastliness
• bluntness
• boorishness
• brashness
• brusqueness
• curtness
• dejection
• glumness
• grimness
• gruffness
• harshness
• melancholy
• moodiness
• moroseness
• nastiness
• roughness
• severity
• sharpness
• shortness
• sulkiness
• sullenness
• truculence