churlishness

Example Sentences

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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

This is a show populated by one of the biggest casts of sweethearts ever seen on TV, and if the people around them are cynical — and hilarious — jerks, the churlishness doesn’t quite rub off.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2012

Mr. Cosby, who was to perform at a benefit for Art Start, which provides creative arts to at-risk children, many with parents in homeless shelters, also will brook no red-carpet churlishness.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2011

This isn't how we envisaged it, this almost unanimous praise and the conspicuous absence of churlishness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2011

Even that nebulous unease when she was around Paula, part churlishness and part insecurity, had melted away.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie