Voorbeelden van surly

• Another very deviant child was surly and extremely resistant as an accompaniment to her fearful, shy behavior.

• In the wake of this experience, the surly silence and social compromises of the 1970s were rational reactions.

• Napoleonic system met local needs, however much its material demands provoked violent resistance or surly resentment during the war years.

• I did not think my successor would be so surly as not to keep them or make sure that they would not have power.

• That surly staff might be replaced by people who welcome our custom?

• It was a parade of vomiting, rudeness and surly, aggressive behaviour.

• I do not put forward these arguments either as a demand for a handout for our country or in any surly, resentful or antagonistic spirit.

• We should welcome that fact and not be surly about it.

• Their reaction is not only mixed but very surly.

• There are two rather surly looking men with hats on with their thumbs down and two smiling young ladies with their thumbs up.

• Passengers would be shepherded by surly, unco-operative and uninformative staff into a collection of cattle trucks, and would not be delivered to their destination in anything remotely approaching their timetable.

• Surly the practice of government by a host of regulations tends to leave out the one essential in government—indeed, its essential basis—which is the good will of the people.

• Surly that is the real danger facing the delivery of mail, regardless of where you set the upper limit, regardless of how you define the reserved sector!

• Alongside this we have a conspicuous decline in the health service, the homeless condemned to costly, yet sordid, bed and breakfast accommodation, and our teachers aggrieved, surly, and suspicious.

• He is losing the old cement of courtesy; he is becoming surly and irritable, and now we are building fiats and living like insects in them.