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Cragged vs Surly - What's the difference?

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Cragged is a related term of surly.


As adjectives the difference between cragged and surly

is that cragged is having crags while surly is (obsolete) lordly, arrogant, supercilious.

As an adverb surly is

(obsolete) in an arrogant or supercilious manner.

cragged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having crags
  • * {{quote-book, year=1658, author=Isaac Barrow, title=Sermons on Evil-Speaking, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Is not the plain way more easy than the rough and cragged ? is not the fair way more pleasant and passable than the foul? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1834, author=Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, title=The Last Days of Pompeii, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon. }}

    surly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
  • Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
  • Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
    • The surly weather put us all in a bad mood.

    Adverb

    (er)
  • (obsolete) In an arrogant or supercilious manner.
  • * 1623 , , Julius Caesar , I.iii,
    • Against the Capitol I met a lion / Who glazed upon me, and went surly