Thesaurus: churlish

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1. a. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
2. a. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
3. adj. rude and boorish
4. adj. having a bad disposition; surly
5. 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.
6. j:100 s. rude and boorish s. having a bad disposition; surly