churlishness

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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

If nothing else, these scattered moments of churlishness confirm that if pricked, Jeter does bleed, which became evident during contract negotiations four years ago.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2014

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

But then some memory would rise, unbidden, and there would be stony silences or spells of churlishness.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini