surliness

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surliness

noun surlinesses

uncountable, 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.

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@misc{surliness_2026,
  title = {surliness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/surliness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}