1. churlish - Adjective
2. churlish - Adjective Satellite
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHappiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. Christopher Morley
Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen. Francis Parkman
Love should make a churlish nature kind, And not transform to rude a gentle breast. Ludovico Ariosto
It is both a pointless and a churlish thing to praise the old days at the expense of the new, though there are a number of things a man might reasonably have preferred to commercial television and the hydrogen bomb. A. A. Thomson
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren. Philip Yancey
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion. William Shakespeare