Citizens queue in interminable lines and suffer humiliating treatment at the hands of surly authorities.
Afterward, Bob had pushed her out of the car halfway back, surly because she was crying.
He took a wrong exit on a recent night and turned surly and anxious.
My surly driver did not help, screaming down narrow streets that were relentless tunnels of gray.
Surly immigration officials do little to enhance America's claim to be a welcoming country.
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They were boycotted, received surly national publicity, and had activists demonstrating outside their stores.
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Going to a movie theatre and buying food will no longer expose us to surly teenage employees.
An "attitude" restaurant, with a claustrophobic town house setting, and service that is mostly condescending and surly.
These artists are eager, nay, overjoyed to see their fans, even the surly artists who hate people.
Legislation and the peace process have improved their lot, but left a residue of surly loyalist resentment.
The surly, handsomest youth, bent over the table at the far left, looks uninterested in anything but his money.
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Surly Brewing founder Omar Ansari emphasized that toward the end of the proceedings.
Ask Hank whom he fancies for president in 2000 and he turns surly.
The trends that worked so happily together to boost real estate to bubble levels have now become surly and uncooperative.
He promised to lift the dead hand of the state from Italian enterprise and slash the surly bonds of taxation.
And Russia of late, resentful and surly might even show a more friendly and co-operative face to the rest of the world.
The behaviors of the first level manager and PR personnel were surly.
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Granted, there was little competition from the hot-tempered captain and his stodgy, surly officers, but Mr. Domville was cut from different cloth.
But reams of sales data weren't what Roberts wanted when customers were upset with lousy food, slow service, sloppy stores and surly employees.
The paper says many government departments act like "surly teenagers" by refusing to talk to each other and only looking out for themselves.
Good to know that those of us soon to slip the surly bonds of this planet can leave the place in good hands.
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Wright Penn searches for him, and he turns out to be Kevin Costner, widowed and in retreat withdrawn, surly, but shining with inner nobility.
Store clerks and restaurant staff can be surly and have the capacity for stunning rudeness should they decide a customer is behaving densely.
His reputation among the scribbling classes suffered from his surly moods and stand-offish behavior long before the specter of steroids arrived to haunt the game.
Liev Schreiber, surly and tough, is his quarrelsome younger brother, and there is an enormous cast of minor actors and extras, some of them memorable.
Blindly paternalistic in his dealings with his surly, distrustful charges, Wikus grins vapidly while his colleagues invade their homes and beat them if they resist.
We stepped off the jet yesterday to a cold snap, a surly stock market and kids who see Marji and me as waiters, dishwashers and ATM machines.
They would be forgoing new carpeting, their clerks would be dressing shabbily and acting surly, and their vast capital expenditures would have them out on a limb.
The defense revealed inconsistencies in the testimony of the current accuser when he took the stand, and the teen's younger brother was a surly and unsympathetic witness.
Francona's 2011 Red Sox had crumbled in September, and the team was surly and unlikable, humiliated by comical reports of mid-game chicken and beer soirees in the clubhouse.
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