surliness

And as I recall his surliness at the height of the George W. Bush years, from whence that 20-years-ago photo he showed was exhumed, I’m not sure he’s changed all that much.

Since then, however, the atmosphere has grown incalculably worse, driven in large part by a warring Republican House majority that seems to plumbs new depths of surliness and disorder with each passing day.

It is the surliness of those who resent the predictable consequence of the political culture that the resentful embrace, paternalist statism.

They also mention that Mr. Statham was a no-show for the session, which might have contributed to their surliness, but his presence certainly would have made the track more fun.

This conflict can lead to aggression, surliness and rudeness.