(a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.
(a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(2) In tangentially fractured specimens, the cleavage plane jumps back and forth from the plasma membrane to a disk-bilayer, thereby giving rise to the known phenomenon of EF-ridges (on the extracellular fracture face) and PF-grooves (in the plasmatic fracture face) which both represent the level of the plasma membrane sur- or subjacent to the aisles between disks.
(3) One of the organisers told local newspaper El Sur that they wanted to show thanks to residents of the city for their support.
(4) Hb La Roche-sur-Yon [beta 81 (EF5) Leu----His] is an unstable hemoglobin variant displaying a moderately increased oxygen affinity.
(5) The Groupe de Recherche sur les Mélanomes Malins of the Centre hospitalier Lariboisière-Saint Louis has undertaken a randomized study of some therapeutic protocoles.
(6) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
(7) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
(8) The expression of Cat-301 immunoreactivity on Y cells in the cat LGN is sharply reduced by early visual deprivation (Sur et al., 1988).
(9) There’s no use being surly about the battle, we lost it but the war hasn’t begun.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People stand next to flooded railway tracks in Souppes-sur-Loing, south-east of Paris.
(11) These patients had been hospitalized in the Service of Acute Respiratory Diseases in Sur Teaching Children's Hospital in Santiago de Cuba during the months of March-April, 1987.
(12) This report examines the results of the Campaign of Eradication of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in the Consolación del Sur district in Pinar del Rio, in the period ranging from August 1, 1981, to December 28, 1984, which included the intensive stage and the first 18 cycles of the consolidation stage.
(13) The man, who has not been identified, is accused of the cold-blooded murder of 25 people and with being an accomplice in the murder of hundreds of other civilians at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
(14) (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae), an intestinal parasite of the Pygmy white-toothed shrew, Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822) (Insectivora: Soricidae: Crocidurinae) in the region of Banyuls-sur-Mer and Cerbère (Oriental Pyrenees, France).
(15) Every weekend he drives back to his family in Lille, taking the shuttle, bien sur.
(16) A subsequent wave of patchwork measures – including beefed-up border security, advertising campaigns in Central America warning people against travelling to the US, and the multimillion-dollar Southern Border Program (Plan Frontera Sur) to apprehend migrants in Mexico – were implemented in lieu of comprehensive immigration reforms that Republican lawmakers opposed.
(17) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(18) Then, when in turn the customs regulations became tight, he opened his own small restaurant in the Provençal town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.
(19) This study deals with the medicinal use of 30 plants collected in the Municipio de Los Cabos and part of the Municipio de la Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
(20) The body of an 86-year-old woman was found in her flooded house in Souppes-sur-Loing in central France , where some towns have been hit by the worst flooding in more than 100 years.
Whimsical
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish.
(a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(2) Photograph: Rachel King Doing a whimsical self-promotional piece for a weekend culture supplement We would never joke about doing a whimsical self-promotional piece for a weekend culture supplement.
(3) Here, it’s easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
(4) There's still touches of the old, more whimsical comedian, though, not to mention a one-woman play about the Mitford sisters' love for sexy Nazis.
(5) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
(6) But with the support of Tony Whitby, the controller of Radio 4, Bob Robinson played a significant and influential part in accelerating Today's transformation from a whimsical magazine into a news and current affairs programme.
(7) A great read, and a delightful puzzle, but as the contradictory and whimsical interpretations of the rabbis show, hardly a reliable basis for justifying real-world land grabs.
(8) Find out about the great films they’re showing ...” On Monday, as Fox and Leadsom painted a vision of UK trade slightly more lo-tech and whimsical than the chocolate biscuit mill in Bagpuss, Corbyn’s only media comment was a tweet: “@LabourFilmFest is coming to the North West for the 1st time.
(9) More whimsical stuff for county blog regulars here in the north-east, where Darren Pattinson has been the central figure of the morning session.
(10) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
(11) In between, he has offered whimsical, slightly vaudevillian comic sagas of sex and drugs in Notting Hill (then a bohemian enclave of high hippydom) with titles such as The Saga of Peaches Melba and the Hash Officer, and Hector the Dope-Sniffing Hound .
(12) This highly energetic picture isn't for everyone – but if you like your whimsical magical realism done up in an antic, extra-crafty style, this may just win your heart.
(13) It limits evaluation to mere tendencies, formulated in such vague terms as "complete remission," "partial remission," and "treatment failure," in a disease whose natural history is sometimes so whimsical that the same clinical case, over a period of years, can be both a success and a failure of the same treatment.
(14) He was himself an artist in his spare time, and his whimsical creations included a man with three penises (Portnoy's Triple Complaint) carved from a tree trunk.
(15) He converted whatever his feelings were into the whimsical, quasi-romantic banter that eventually made its way into the Alice books.
(16) I still have mine at home.” Ranieri’s simulated alarm call was no less whimsical to Italian ears three decades ago than it is to English ones today.
(17) This article presents a whimsical overview of how a father can participate in this most important relationship through supporting and assisting the mother and developing comforting skills for the infant.
(18) The north-south divide always brings out the whimsical Tolkien in southerners.
(19) He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975.
(20) Music has always been the principal inspiration for Morris's work, and the variety in this season is reflected at one extreme by A Wooden Tree, Morris's response to the whimsical fantasy of Scottish poet Ivor Cutler, and Socrates, his marvellously poetic dialogue with the austere music of Eric Satie's score.