churlishness

Example Sentences

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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

ESPN’s Baxter Holmes tweeted out the most Pop-y section of the transcript, and the staccato churlishness reads like dialogue from a Harold Pinter play.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 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

Such churlishness wasn't always considered to be a talented chef's due.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2014

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

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie