Definition of Churlish. Meaning of Churlish. Synonyms of Churlish

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Definition of Churlish

Churlish
Churlish 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.

Meaning of Churlish from wikipedia

- 1970. Variations on the phrase (usually as some euphemism for the more churlish "stupid") include "keep it super simple", "keep it simple, silly", "keep...
- heart that it's difficult not to get carried away, and it feels almost churlish to quibble with the intellectual responses it barely aspires to." The Sentence...
- released Dylan, a collection of studio outtakes, widely interpreted as a churlish response to Dylan's signing with a rival record label. In January 1974...
- but averse to punishment. According to Key, the line "insubordinate and churlish" was improvised; it was later used in "Awesome Hitler Story", a sketch...
- original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2010. It would, of course, be churlish not to recognise the winning mentality of a team who have lost just a single...
- that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness." Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle, despite giving the film...
- Anderson as Attorney April Andrews Jasmine Batchelor as Detective Tonie Churlish Anjali Bhimani as Nisha Singh Stephen C. Bradbury as Judge Colin McNamara...
- Churlish (Jasmine Batchelor) from their Brooklyn counterparts. Muncy later departed at the end of the season to work on a DEA task force and Churlish...
- archytype for said societal rumblings (allegoricaly speaking) -It would be churlish of me to quibble! Green: Judging from your response to Jon Swinghammer...
- pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour"—hence "churlish" (cf. the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of...