Dictionary Definition
churlish adj
1 rude and boorish
2 having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a
bear"- Shakespeare
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Adjective
Synonyms
- sense of or pertaining to a serf rustic
- sense rude or surly cross-grained, rude, surly, ungracious
- sense stingy or grudging grudging, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, stingy
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Translations
of or pertaining to a serf
- Norwegian: bondsk
rude or surly
- Norwegian: gretten
stingy or grudging
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abrupt,
aggressive, bearish, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, carlish, cavalier, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, country-born,
country-bred, crabbed,
cranky, cross, cross-grained, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, discourteous, dour, excitable, farmerish, feisty, fractious, from the sticks,
gruff, harsh, hayseed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, huffish, huffy, inurbane, irascible, irritable, loobyish, loutish, lowbred, lubberly, lumpen, lumpish, mean, naive, ornery, perverse, raffish, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, severe, sharp, short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, testy, truculent, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unschooled, up-country,
waspish, yokel, yokelish