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surliness

surliness noun: the property of being surly.

Noun

surliness (usually uncountable, plural surlinesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being surly.
    • There has been an escalation of police harassment in the gay community: five brutal busts at the Crystal Hotel; the closing of sex clubs without notice; beatings of women outside Amelia's Bar in January and surliness and assaults against lesbians by off duty officers at Peg's Club later.1979 August 4, Carl Wittman, “Streets of San Francisco”, in Gay Community News, page 12

surliness meaning in Tamil

surliness in Tamil

துடுக்கு

Forms of surliness

pluralsurlinesses

Origin of surliness

From surly + -ness.

Questions about surliness

What does surliness mean?
Surliness means the property of being surly.
What is surliness in Tamil?
Surliness in Tamil is துடுக்கு. See Surliness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is surliness?
Surliness is a noun.
What is the plural of surliness?
The plural of surliness is surlinesses.

Words near surliness in the dictionary

  1. surla
  2. surlas
  3. surlier
  4. surliest
  5. surlily
  6. surliness
  7. surlinesses
  8. surling
  9. surlings
  10. surloin
  11. surloins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: surliness (page history and authors); surliness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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