Crossword-Solution: SURLY 5 letters, 105 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Surly a. Arrogant; haughty.
Surly a. Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe;
sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog;
surly language; a surly look.
Surly a. Rough; dark; tempestuous.

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We have 105 clues for the answer “SURLY”

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Bad-tempered and unfriendly 1 answer
Bad-tempered, unfriendly 1 answer
Cross-grained. 1 answer
Distinctly uncooperative 1 answer
Easily miffed 1 answer
Gruff or glum 1 answer
Inclined to anger 1 answer
Irritably sullen 1 answer
Irritably unfriendly 1 answer
Unfriendly or ill-tempered in manner 1 answer
Like a crab 1 answer
Not exactly wholesome 1 answer
One of the Seven Duffs at Duff Gardens 1 answer
Prone to cross words 1 answer
Prone to sullen moods 1 answer
Quick to bristle 1 answer
Rude and sullen 1 answer
Sullen and gruff 1 answer
Sullenly ill-humored 1 answer
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace 1 answer
Like crabs 2 answers
Like a sourpuss 2 answers
stroppy 3 answers
Like a curmudgeon 3 answers
Foul-tempered 3 answers
Hardly polite 3 answers
In a crabby mood 3 answers
In a foul mood 9 answers
A GRUFF REPLY 10 answers
AN IRASCIBLE RESPONSE 10 answers
BILLY GOATS GRUFF ADVERSARY 10 answers
Ill-natured 11 answers
A BAD-TEMPERED PERSON 11 answers
Ill-humored 12 answers
bad tempered 15 answers
Bad-tempered 18 answers
cur 20 answers
Ill-tempered 22 answers
Sulky 27 answers
in a bad mood 31 answers
Ungracious 42 answers
Bearish 45 answers
snarly 48 answers
Rancorous 53 answers
growling 55 answers
cavilling 61 answers
Temperamental 61 answers
churning 62 answers
outraged 62 answers
exasperated 63 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SURLY (5)

The farm-hands would always do anything for Marie; Frank couldn’t find one so surly that he would not make an effort to please her.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
What have we got an interpreter for, if you break out in this rash way?” “All right, I’ll wait,” replied the Pumpkinhead, in a surly tone—although his face smiled as genially as ever.
The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993
HOPE “Faith, Madame!” said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, “I think we’d better leave him alone.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Tarzan wondered in a lazy sort of way whom she might be, and what relations one so lovely could have with the surly, bearded Russian.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with SURLY (3)

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise — in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: "No one is wise who does not know some part of everything." Moreover, she must have the courage of a man. This means that she should not be brought up overmuch among women nor should she be indulged in exte…
Christine de Pizan The Treasure of the City of Ladies
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then would make you woe.
William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthof sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with…
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 70 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).