Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being churlish; rudeness of manners or temper; surliness; indisposition to kindness or courtesy; niggardliness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
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Examples
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It is the audacity with which they conduct themselves, their churlishness, which is so intolerable.
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"Thanks to our efforts, wild animals now have more space to roam You have to ask yourself what kind of churlishness would say that is a bad thing."
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-- This is indeed a weakness; but it is a weakness of nature, and which neither religion nor philosophy are sufficient to arm us against; and the very endeavours we make to banish, or at least to conceal our disquiets on this score, occasion a certain peevishness in the sweetest temper, and make us behave with a kind of churlishness, even to those most dear to us.
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura Eliza Fowler Haywood 1724
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It is childishness, Zoo, but I think a better descriptor would be "churlishness". bit is a little cantankerous today.
Think Progress 2009
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I truly believe “it’s the thought that counts”, and think it’s the worst kind of churlishness to resent any sincere gift, no matter what it is.
Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Airing of Grievances: Last of the Year (I Hope) 2006
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You have to ask yourself what kind of churlishness would say that is a bad thing. "
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This remark would inevitably have been construed into another instance of that churlishness which is so often said (though quite erroneously) to have been one of Tennyson’s infirmities.
Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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We have churlishness, we have brutality, we have rape.
Sam-Who-Likes-Nothing - The Stars My Destination at SF Novelists 2010
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I never expected to have something friends kept telling me to great churlishness on my part I would inevitably experience at this occasion: fun.
Erica Heller: The Catch-22 of Book Readings, The Taste of Mackerel Erica Heller 2011
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I never expected to have something friends kept telling me to great churlishness on my part I would inevitably experience at this occasion: fun.
Erica Heller: The Catch-22 of Book Readings, The Taste of Mackerel Erica Heller 2011
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