Crossword clues for churlish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Churlish \Churl"ish\, a.
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Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. ``Churlish benefits.''
--Ld. Burleigh.Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
--Cowper. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
--Boyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English cierlisc "of or pertaining to churls," from churl + -ish. Meaning "deliberately rude" is late 14c. Related: Churlishly; churlishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic 2 rude, surly, ungracious 3 stingy or grudging 4 (context of soil English) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
WordNet
adj. rude and boorish
having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare
Usage examples of "churlish".
But it would be churlish to deny that he had been kindness itself after the distressing theft of the Breguet watch at Temple Meads Station.
And, by your leave, I shall him quite anon. Right in his churlish termes will I speak, I pray to God his necke might to-break.
He obtained ten bushels of corn of the churlish and treacherous natives, who closely watched and dogged the expedition.
It seemed churlish and hypertechnical to object that there was no such right in the Constitution.
None of mistresses would ever dream of conceiving a child with one of these churlish cretins.
It would be churlish to tell Brutus and Cassius about their provinces for the first time in the full glare of the Senate.
God me speed, I say, a churl hath done a churlish deed, What should I say?
Some might think it churlish for a trooper to belittle a posting to so beautiful a world, and indeed, Pyrassis boasted an amenable climate and pleasant surroundings.
He would continue as he had for the past several years, supplanting the churlish emperor one step at a time, bit by bit, until there would be no more need for Aboshan, his exiled wife, or any of her prying, spying, low-level functionaries.
Whatever it was that overpowered Briony, it wasn't your churlish attire.
Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost A naked subject to the weeping clouds, And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.
From time to time puffs of smoke still gushed into the room, but Lord Charlbury, pressed into a deep chair, and given a cushion for the support of his injured arm, felt that it would have been churlish to have animadverted upon this circumstance.
Still, I might help you have the best of both worlds were you to moderate your churlish behavior.
The result cannot but be a race of churlish, cacophonous hybrids, whose amorphous outcries will waver uncertainly betwixt prose and verse, absorbing the vices of both and the virtues of neither.
All the veriest stuff of Life whose churlish churnings and infinite interweavings, confusing comings and linear leanings constitute the essence of the universe's febrile fecund fabric.