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surly
(of an animal) ill-tempered or refractory


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He had a surly old face, and did not seem at all pleased to see her--but then she was displeased with his garden and wore her "quite contrary" expression, and certainly did not seem at all pleased to see him.
``You should not ease me of mine so lightly,'' muttered Gurth, whose surly honesty could not be tamed even by the pressure of immediate violence, ---``had I it but in my power to give three strokes in its defence.
Shimerda and Antonia always deferred to him, though he was often surly with them and contemptuous toward his father.
 
 
 
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