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SURLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
Example:
his temper was well known to all his employees
Synonyms:
biliousness; irritability; peevishness; pettishness; snappishness; surliness; temper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("surliness" is a kind of...):
ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surliness"):
querulousness (the quality of being given to complaining)
Derivation:
surly (inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace)
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