Example Sentences

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He surlily refused to command them to retreat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sure, the dictionary says we can use lame adverbs like uglily, friendlily, surlily, and jollily, but nobody says we have to.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

‘They won’t come, not before you’re dead anyway,’ answered Snaga surlily.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

And he wouldn’t have gone on afoot to Hoskins or any place else,” 126 Tolley said surlily.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.

"Why not say it here?" asked Giles, surlily, though he followed slowly after their guest.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames