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churl

noun as in a rude and ill-bred person

noun as in person overly concerned with saving money

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But I don’t want to be too much of a churl.

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It promised December after December of piqued arguments and cascading overreactions, churls chiming in from all sides, with no argument essentially lame.

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Only a churl would lament the existence of these testaments to the out-of-nowhere potential of a great pop hit.

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And you’d have to be a churl not to like it.

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Fondness for the Brown years is a niche sentiment in British politics, but only the churls deny that he was a substantial figure.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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