Besides, taxpayers are usually surly-looking after waiting for a long time.
Or just casually mention, "You know, I dug the way you handled that surly waiter the other day."
As the country prepared for the state visit by Pope Benedict XVI due to begin on September 16th, the mood looked surly.
But a surly, protectionist Britain would be worse.
Just two decades ago, shops had surly staff offering a few drab items, often locked safely away in glass cases.
This made Ian a little surly.
Poor business and manufacturing plans will incapacitate the manufacturing system just as surly the unavailability of a machine.
The early euphoria could rapidly fizzle into surly disappointment.
Absolutely no chance, I've carried this camera far too far to just hand it over to a surly fool like you.
You don't really want removal men to be efficient and clean; you want them to be burly, and surly, beer-bellied, with pie-breath and greasy flat-cap.
For just a few minutes of your day, you can help a columnist get on the straight-and-narrow with his editors, who are a mean and surly lot.
The rooms are small, the service is surly and they're overpriced.
You stop returning calls; you stop treating her or giving her gifts; you act surly.
