Surly in a sentence as an adjective

People usually treat venue staff like ****, so it's no wonder that they might be surly.

Very slowly, but very, very surly, google is doing a complete 180 on "don't be evil".

I know that it will slow everyone down but surly the NSA has enough horsepower to drown almost everyone else out.

That turns Excel from being a tool in the workplace to being a surly co-worker who habitually messes up other workers' projects.

You still have to pre-book, but they have cars milling around everywhere, all trackable, with no surly operators to call.

I can't think of specifics but surly most of what is considered the standard today was once the experimentation of one company or one lab.

Slovenia too. "If it's good for the USA/Germany/Italy/Austria then surly it has to be good for us too." that's how our politicians operate here :\

In a few years you'll have achieved parity in terms of salary and respect to most of these surly commenters, and no one will give a **** about your "origin story".

I'm not sure if such people are attracted to such positions or such positions end up making such people but whatever the case, "surly" is a commonly appropriate adjective to use.

I truly hope local businesses will come to accept that a $5 for $10 deal, where the customer has to jump through some hoops to get it[1], is almost surly a terrible way of attracting new customers.

If you want to shake the pillars of computer programming, you need to be able to do more than say "everything is ****," and if you can't, then you sound like nothing more than surly, precocious, ignorant teenager.

Surly definitions

adjective

inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

See also: ugly