churl

Example Sentences

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2019

But you’d be an awful churl to insist upon making the argument.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2017

But with the superb singing on display, I am beginning to feel like a churl for citing any flaws.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2015

Fairly Saint Peter told him of the churl who had spoken shame of them: "By his tongue hath he silenced, us, and I myself was so abashed that never again will I speak thereof."

From Tales from the Old French by Various