A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money.

He might have been too handsome in his youth, the kind of man whose looks make me surly and unresponsive.

For many days he saw no one but the surly and taciturn man who brought him food.

Whatever, the effect was that of a surly man with disturbing eyes brandishing a weapon.

At another, a surly old man came to the door when she rang the bell.

A surly man who is disinclined to let go of old grudges.

During the exit music, the surly man smiled and patted his wife.

They were a Tennessee mountain outfit, surly, dangerous men who made no friends.

He didn't know if the surly man, known as the Doctor (because of his medical or engineering skills?