currish
Example Sentences
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Such an exhibition of currish cowardice and sullen bullying spite increases rather our wondering pity for its victim than our wondering sense of her degradation.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
There was no craven slinking, there were no currish snarls.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
O people currish, churlish as their seas— He rejoices he leaves them, never to return till “rocks shall turn to rivers.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
He was a cur, and denied the accusation in a currish manner, hardly intended to create belief.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
