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Churl·ish, a.
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. “Churlish benefits.”
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. --Cowper.
2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
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churlish
adj 1: rude and boorish
2: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"-
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