surliness's Usage Examples:

He went far out of his way and lost much time, all on account of his surliness.

Then comes gentleness - the virtue regulative of anger; and the list is concluded by the excellences of social intercourse, friendliness (as a mean between obsequiousness and surliness), truthfulness and decorous wit.

Contemptuous of the opinion of his fellows, he hid his virtues, paraded his faults, affected some failings from which he was really exempt, and, since his munificent charity could not be concealed from the recipients, laboured to spoil it by gratuitous surliness.

Synonyms:

temper, pettishness, querulousness, peevishness, biliousness, ill nature, irritability, snappishness,

Antonyms:

good health, patience, dullness, good humor, good nature,