Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
The surly weather put us all in a bad mood.
Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
In an arrogant or supercilious manner.
Against the Capitol I met a lion / Who glazed upon me, and went surly by / Without annoying me […]
16th-century alteration of sirly, from sir + -ly.
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