Surly

a.	1.	Arrogant; haughty.
	2.	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.
	3.	Rough; dark; tempestuous. Now softened into joy the surly storm. - Thomson.

Adj.

1.

surly - inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" Synonyms: ugly

abrupt, aggressive, argumentative, bad-tempered, bearish, beastly, beetle-browed, bilious, black, black-browed, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cantankerous, cavalier, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, dark, dejected, discourteous, dour, dumpish, dyspeptic, fractious, frowning, glowering, glum, grim, grouchy, gruff, grum, grumpy, harsh, ill-humored, ill-mannered, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irritable, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, obnoxious, obstreperous, peevish, quarrelsome, rough, rude, saturnine, scowling, severe, sharp, short, short-tempered, snappish, snippy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, temperamental, testy, touchy, truculent, uncivil, ungracious, unpleasant, waspish

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