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inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

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In Oakton City, purple squirrel Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), Andie the red squirrel (Katharine Heigl) and pals decamp to Liberty Park after their home is razed an explosion.
In Oakton City, purple squirrel Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), Andie the red squirrel Katharine Heigl) and pals decamp to Liberty Park after their home is razed by an explosion.
When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to tear down Liberty Park and build an amusement park in its place, Surly, Buddy, Andie and the rest of the animals are suddenly homeless.
He may look surly at times and he may look arrogant at others, but deep down you suspect there lies a deeply arrogant, surly individual.
They all gather supplies for the winter food store, except squirrel Surly (Will Arnett).
Every groundhog, squirrel, mouse and mole gathers supplies to add to the winter food store except for mischievous squirrel Surly (Will Arnett).
Surly the squirrel (voiced by Will Arnett) inadvertently destroys the winter food supply in Liberty Park.
He said that the interior minister would take the public into confidence after the final results of the talks adding difficulties will surly exist in the talks but the government need to continue their strategy of peace.
It opened with the line "Life is there for the taking," then went on to show squirrels in a mad hunt for nuts - a group of them in the park led by a raccoon (Liam Neeson) who were determined to do something about their vanishing nuts supply, and the outcast Surly (Will Arnett) who was out for the hunt for himself and his loyal but speechless rat friend Buddy.
The story, based on Lepeniotis' short film, "Surly Squirrel,'' is simple: The animals in Liberty Park, ruled by a gruff raccoon (Neeson, of course) ominously just named Raccoon, are facing a severe nut shortage just as winter is approaching.
Even by EastEnders' laughable standards, surly Shirley sure has a lot of longlost relatives.
Being asked about the expectations from Iran during its presidency over the Movement, she responded Iran is capable of fulfilling its responsibilities and that surly would spare no efforts in this regard as well.
The Prime Minister particularly commended the conduct of the MQM in the passage of constitutional amendments which, in turn, would surly strengthen democracy and federation of Pakistan.
My bike is a Surly Big Dummy, which is built on the Xtracycle Free Radical design.