surly (adj.)
- abrupt
- aggressive
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- beastly
- beetle-browed
- bilious
- black
- bluff
- blunt
- boorish
- brash
- brusque
- cantankerous
- cavalier
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- curt
- dark
- dejected
- discourteous
- dour
- dyspeptic
- fractious
- frowning
- glowering
- glum
- grim
- grouchy
- gruff
- grumpy
- harsh
- ill-humored
- ill-mannered
- ill-natured
- ill-tempered
- irritable
- lowering
- melancholy
- moody
- morose
- obnoxious
- obstreperous
- peevish
- quarrelsome
- rough
- rude
- saturnine
- scowling
- severe
- sharp
- short
- short-tempered
- snappish
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- temperamental
- testy
- touchy
- truculent
- ugly
- uncivil
- ungracious
- unpleasant
- waspish
