surliness

The 59-year-old prime minister has a Nixonian reputation for surliness and bullying.

It was in a state of half imbecility; the most wonderful characteristic being, that all its self-will, its surliness had gone.

Turk was usually restless; Grim slept away his life in surliness.

Accustomed to these spells of moodiness, his wife made no attempt to rouse him, knowing it would only increase his surliness.

Here is a note of more human character interspersed with Borrow's diatribes upon the surliness of the Scots.

In confinement these rats are not engaging pets; they show a considerable amount of surliness and ferocity.