Crossword-Solution: SURLINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Surliness | n. | The quality or state of being surly. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “SURLINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Grumpiness | 6 answers |
| mordancy | 9 answers |
| quick passions | 10 answers |
| churlishness | 10 answers |
| crossness | 11 answers |
| Give pain. | 12 answers |
| Hot temper | 12 answers |
| Sourness | 18 answers |
| bad mood | 18 answers |
| irascibility | 20 answers |
| animus | 44 answers |
| Spleen | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SURLINESS (5)
Tell me of the deeds when thou wilt." But indeed he longed to know the deed, and fretted him because of Simon's surliness and closeness.
That other leading city of Greece, Lacedaemon, considering that Lycurgus their lawgiver was so addicted to elegant learning, as to have been the first that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spartan surliness with his smooth songs and odes, the better to plant among them law and civility, it is to be wondered how museless and unbookish they were, minding nought but the feats of war.
The newsmonger is of the number, but his manner is not quite hearty--there is something of surliness in his compliments.
What DO you mean, I ask again?’ ‘That,’ returned the landlord, a little brought down from his dignity by the stranger’s surliness, ‘is a Maypole story, and has been any time these four-and-twenty years.
Even Paw's surliness lightened a bit by the time he had speared his tenth cake and walloped it in the bacon grease before sprinkling it thick with sugar and settling the eleventh cake on top.
Quotes with SURLINESS (3)
Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.
A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl," Bernard murmured." Aye, he is all that!!" Master Herbert said." A murrain be on him! And when I came to him, what did I do? I did bow in all politeness, yet stiffly withal to show him I'd not brook his surliness.""I did hear ye did bow so low that your head came below your knees," Bernard said.
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.