The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surlily
Surlily \Sur"li*ly\, adv. In a surly manner.
Wiktionary
surlily
adv. In a surly manner.
WordNet
surlily
adv. in a churlish manner; "the store owner treated his customers churlishly" [syn: churlishly]
Usage examples of "surlily".
Therefore the habitues of Stevenson's Hotel did not recognize him in the gloomy and morose individual who dropped his saddle on the floor with a crash and stamped over to the three-legged table at dusk and surlily demanded shelter for the night.
He had heard one woman sleepily asking Cambring what was wrong, and a man's voice surlily asking why he had to stay behind.
Reluctantly, surlily, he came down to the road and moved two wheelbarrows very slowly, studying the car and its occupants as he did it.