surliness

It was then that their surliness came to a head.

Cole asked with a bit more surliness than he intended.

He looks away with an expression somewhere between surliness and embarrassment.

Always a surliness about the people, and a perpetual threat of violence I feel.

He had been trouble all along, and his surliness reminded her of Andrew.

He was trying to avoid surliness, Thad thought, and doing a pretty good job.

And, as she had anticipated, when the demon heard her plan, it lost some of its surliness.

But now it's going to go beyond mere surliness.

Too often, there seems to be a surliness about some lacrosse players' individual demeanor.

Oh, the arrogance, the surliness, the meanness in that voice.

Aunt Sal, recognizing their surliness, decided to start things off right.

But Brando's trademark surliness and vulnerability are there in force.

The trouble with such reticence is that it can be mistaken for surliness.

He could hear courtiers whispering now about his unusual surliness.

The two candidates most marked by accusations of surliness in the past were making nice noises.

But she refused to allow his surliness to burst her bubble of well-being.

It is almost mythic, French smoking, like liver complaints and surliness.

She turns surliness into an existential statement of supreme negativity.

Surliness, like the rain, was completely unabated; I turned on my heel and moved.

He appeared no less surprised to meet me, and his greeting could hardly have been more thorough in its surliness.

"That will be just about enough of your surliness," Stantington said.

He shows more surliness toward his superiors, at one point refusing an order to eliminate an opponent.

The print media are not to be outdone in the surliness sweepstakes.

In winter the street frowned with a forbidding surliness.

When he opened his eyes, the surliness had vanished, replaced by a cool nonchalance.