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SURLINESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled angerplay

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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