Churlish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Churlish \Churl"ish\, a.
     1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
        illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." --Ld. Burleigh.
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              Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. --Cowper.


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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  churlish
       adj 1: rude and boorish
       2: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"-
          Shakespeare

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "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