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churlish

[ chur-lish ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

like a churl; boorish; rude:
churlish behavior.
Synonyms: uncivil, ill-natured, loutish, vulgar, uncouth, coarse
Antonyms: courteous
of a churl; peasantlike.
stingy; mean.
difficult to work or deal with, as soil.

churlish

/ ˈtʃɜːlɪʃ /

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Before 1000; Middle English cherlish, Old English ceorlisc. See churl, -ish ¹

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Honestly, aside from a rather churlish crow named Mango, you’d be surprised at just how crafty birds can be!

Celebrating the occult and otherworldly just one day a year seems churlish and unwholesome, especially when the occult is around us every day.

And yet, by the end of the night, it felt churlish to complain.

Christmas is a season of marvelous and mystical experiences, and maybe it seems churlish to let science and history intrude.

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.

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