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Significats de surly en anglès

Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace.

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The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous; in sculpture, it is ugly.
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observ...
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It began to break out in ugly blisters; I was in despair.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New Englan...
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Those are just the ugly parts they play in the present drama.
The Secret Places of the Heart
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Take the thing away, sir: it is ugly; it has black eyes.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01
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Just the toy-villages in boxes, uniform as graves and ugly as bricks-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 / A Maga...
Ús de surly en anglès
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However, surly influences indicate minor problems relating to a clash of wills.
The South African
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A surly 'Don't count on it' was the best she could manage.
Blood and Bone
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He manifested interest in the gambling of the players by surly grunts.
The Border Legion
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He answered all the questions put to him in a surly tone.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
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You pitched in so gladly, while the others were surly and grumbling.
Man of Many Minds
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The goat was browsing upon the grass but looked cross and surly.
Rinkitink in Oz / Wherein Is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prin...
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Speaking generally, the Senate had shown itself in a surly mood lately.
Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Roger...
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But in his intercourse with William he was blunt and sometimes surly.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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A surly fellow, Widdowson; very likely to play the tyrant, he thought.
The Odd Women
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The words were civil enough, but his manner was surly and suspicious.
The Indiscretion of the Duchess / Being a Story Concerning Two L...
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Colourful crowds shout slogans, watched by lines of surly CRS riot police.
The Irish Times
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The bartender's a surly scrug, though; he just scoffs and looks away.
From a Certain Point of View
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Her husband had become a surly man, and cruel; he beat her.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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By the time the meeting began, the crowd was surly, tense, explosive.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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As he spoke, the surly mutineers were riding slowly towards the coach.
Beverly of Graustark
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The old man grew surly sometimes when sorely goaded by the new-comers.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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