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surlinesses

surlinesses is the plural of surliness.

Meaning of surliness

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

Questions about surlinesses

What is surlinesses the plural of?
Surlinesses is the plural of surliness.

Words near surlinesses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surlinesses (page history and authors); surliness (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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