Definition of "surliness" [sur•li•ness]

• The property of being surly. (noun)

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• "I've noted a certain surliness to a fair number of gunsmiths that can only be reduced/relieved by the liberal application of cash."
• "His love of solitude was probably sincere, his surliness was his breeding, and he extracted from his painful, unsocial habitudes the peculiar poetry which suits with hardship."
• "Mark, with a kind of surliness, an unusual mood for him, denied it somewhat sharply."