churlish
AdjectiveUS[chur-lish]/ˈtʃɝlɪʃ/2 syllables
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Adjective (2)
- rude and boorishOpposite graciousSimilar ungracious
- having a bad disposition; surly“churlish as a bear — Shakespeare”Opposite good-naturedSimilar ill-natured
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Churl′ish adjective
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. “Churlish benefits.” or Burghley, Lord, William Cecil Burleigh
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.— William Cowper
2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Robert Boyle
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54