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Meanings of churlish in English

Churlish.

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Usage of churlish in English
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Moreover, I regretted the churlish way I'd left Juba the night before.
Song of the Nile
2
Not that Ireland are in the mood to be churlish at present.
The Guardian
3
But I'm impatient by nature and the wait was making me churlish.
Swamp Bones
4
It would be churlish for the boy to withdraw his support completely.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
5
Even the most churlish Bavarian and Berliner is beginning to get excited.
The Guardian
6
It would be churlish to refuse that which is so graciously proffered.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sie...
7
Nothing is stunted by the churlish, icy hand of indifference or severity.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
8
Sir Marsham Dykes, of The Chase, Stanning: A damned unsociable churlish fellow.
Okewood of the Secret Service
9
Picking holes in Leinster's performance on Saturday seems churlish and easily done.
The Irish Times
10
Annoyed at the churlish rebuff, I turned my back and walked home.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
11
First off, there's nothing to be gained by being churlish about this.
The Irish Times
12
Nothing was farther from Emerson himself than whimsical eccentricity or churlish austerity.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
13
Beyond doubt he was occasionally gruff, he was churlish, he was porcupinish.
Clayhanger
14
And if she said yes, she'd sound churlish to LMB's top dog.
Damaged
15
I found him then to be churlish, childish, ignorant, unjust and mean-minded.
The Irish Times
16
Something's afoot, and the churlish scum have failed to tell us what.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
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