churlish

For the moment it seems churlish to knock an innocuous little history for its essential brevity and its inevitable lacunae.

My friends all seemed to drool over churlish boy-band types.

His churlish attack created a media storm that the Republican Party got dragged into and which has hurt the image of the party.

With a churlish gesture the old man pushed the bread over toward her and with hesitating, trembling fingers she reached for it.

The lover has no share in this churlish anger: his heart is not capable of offending you.

It seemed churlish, too, not to join in the chorus; and by and by the whole meeting was singing with a will.

He was stirred to stinging invective of the churlish priest of Saint-Sulpice, who denied her church-burial.

A finer weapon wherewith to strike at a churlish world was never given into the hands of man.