About The Word Churlish
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Churlish
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What's The Definition Of Churlish?
[adj] having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare
[adj] rude and boorish Synonyms | Synonyms for Churlish: ill-natured | ungracious Related Terms | Find terms related to Churlish: abrupt | aggressive | bearish | beastly | bitchy | bluff | blunt | boorish | brash | brusque | cankered | cantankerous | carlish | cavalier | cloddish | clodhopping | clownish | coarse | countrified | country-born | country-bred | crabbed | cranky | cross | cross-grained | crude | crusty | curt | cussed | disagreeable | discourteous | dour | excitable | farmerish | feisty | fractious | from the sticks | gruff | harsh | hayseed | hick | hicky | hobnailed | hooliganish | huffish | huffy | inurbane | irascible | irritable | loobyish | loutish | lowbred | lubberly | lumpen | lumpish | mean | naive | ornery | perverse | raffish | rough | roughneck | rowdy | rowdyish | rube | ruffianly | severe | sharp | short | snappish | snippy | spiteful | spleeny | splenetic | surly | testy | truculent | ugly | uncivilized | uncouth | uncultivated | uncultured | unpolished | unrefined | unschooled | up-country | waspish | yokel | yokelish See Also | Churlish In Webster's Dictionary \Churl"ish\, a.
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
illiberal; niggardly. ``Churlish benefits.'' --Ld.
Burleigh.
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. --Cowper.
2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily
wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable
nature of some minerals. --Boyle.
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