churlish

How to use churlish in a sentence

Honestly, aside from a rather churlish crow named Mango, you’d be surprised at just how crafty birds can be!

Celebrating the occult and otherworldly just one day a year seems churlish and unwholesome, especially when the occult is around us every day.

With a churlish gesture the old man pushed the bread over toward her and with hesitating, trembling fingers she reached for it.

The lover has no share in this churlish anger: his heart is not capable of offending you.

It seemed churlish, too, not to join in the chorus; and by and by the whole meeting was singing with a will.

WANDERING HEATHSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH

He was stirred to stinging invective of the churlish priest of Saint-Sulpice, who denied her church-burial.

A finer weapon wherewith to strike at a churlish world was never given into the hands of man.

This churlish, inhospitable manner made Lindsley many enemies in a land in which one can not afford to have enemies.

DUFFELSEDWARD EGGLESTON

He closed the lids on them, and gave a sort of churlish smile immediately afterward.

But the villagers still held aloof, although the newcomer did his best to overcome their churlish doubts.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985