• We stepped off the jet yesterday to a cold snap, a surly stock market and kids who see Marji and me as waiters, dishwashers and ATM machines.

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  • The defense revealed inconsistencies in the testimony of the current accuser when he took the stand, and the teen's younger brother was a surly and unsympathetic witness.

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  • Legislation and the peace process have improved their lot, but left a residue of surly loyalist resentment.

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  • And Russia of late, resentful and surly might even show a more friendly and co-operative face to the rest of the world.

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  • The Scottish quintet Frightened Rabbit fits pretty neatly into a collection of majestically surly Scottish bands The Twilight Sad, Glasvegas, We Were Promised Jetpacks and others that sound as if they'd like to be left alone.

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  • He took a wrong exit on a recent night and turned surly and anxious.

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  • Store clerks and restaurant staff can be surly and have the capacity for stunning rudeness should they decide a customer is behaving densely.

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  • But building a western-style dealer network, as planned, looks a Himalayan task given today's typical salesroom: a squalid concrete bunker, featuring limited choice, surly service and machinegun-toting security guards.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • They would be forgoing new carpeting, their clerks would be dressing shabbily and acting surly, and their vast capital expenditures would have them out on a limb.

    FORBES: Digital rules

  • Surly immigration officials do little to enhance America's claim to be a welcoming country.

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  • Going to a movie theatre and buying food will no longer expose us to surly teenage employees.

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  • After a professor at the Institute (Stellan Skarsgard) discovers that the surly janitor he's argued with in the hallway is capable of off-handedly deciphering mathematical equations that leave his graduate students staring blankly at the chalkboard, Will is taken under the professor's wing.

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  • An "attitude" restaurant, with a claustrophobic town house setting, and service that is mostly condescending and surly.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Throughout his career, the work of singer-songwriter Eric Bachmann hasn't exactly radiated warmth, whether he was unfurling surly screeds as lead singer of Archers of Loaf or re-creating himself as a crooning indie-rock Neil Diamond with Crooked Fingers.

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  • But now, with all the airport security, flight delays, baggage fees, and surly attitudes of airline employees, it has become the least favorite part of what I do for a living.

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