Surly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 35 anagrams from letters in surly (lrsuy).
1560-70; spelling variant of obsolete sirly lordly, arrogant, equivalent to sir + -ly
A couple of times, Newt Gingrich got so surly and snarky and self-congratulatory that I was transported back to 1995.
"You have done very well," remarked the Brabanter in a surly voice.
Our steward was a Portuguese negro, of the most vicious and surly temper.
So, Dean picks Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), a dorky, surly art student.
This was a guy so surly and grim that he made Tommy Lee Jones look like SpongeBob SquarePants.
He had to bid him go back in a surly tone, and his heart smote him while he did so.
She was a Socitaire of the Comdie, old, spiteful, and surly.
Even now, the GOP still polls less well than the Democratic Party with a surly electorate.
He would not have been a Briton if these untoward combinations of events had not made him surly.
It was a bit like watching a surly jazz musician, channeling Miles Davis, take the stage.