surliness
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger - his temper was well known to all his employees • Syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness • Derivationally related forms: surly, snappish (for: snappishness), pettish (for: pettishness), irritable (for: irritability), temper (for: temper) • Hypernyms: ill nature • Hyponyms: querulousness
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