churlishness
Example Sentences
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She puts a lot of effort into home decoration and entertaining guests as she tries to keep Joe’s churlishness at bay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
This time, of course, he spoke at length with the news media, which bore the cumulative scar tissue of years of Connors’s churlishness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2018
A few, talking privately, expressed their chagrin at the churlishness of Cuba’s Party apparatchiks, and worried that, after all of Obama’s effort, his overtures were being spurned.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2016
To The Boston Globe’s Peter Keough, the film “resurrects a macho churlishness and puerile wish fulfillment that is less charming now than it was back when the show went off the air.”
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2015
Even that nebulous unease when she was around Paula, part churlishness and part insecurity, had melted away.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
