Meaning of CHURLISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'churlish
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- [adj] having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare
- [adj] rude and boorish
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| | Synonyms: | | ill-natured, ungracious |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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