churlish
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Churlish Nikita Khrushchev made it a night to remember.
From Time Magazine Archive
Churlish, crusty, gloomy, gruff, ill-natured, morose, sour, sullen, surly.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Choose we gentle courtesies, Churlish ways forswear; Let us one and all behold Jesus sleeping there.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
Churlish indeed should we have been if we had sighed to think that we had met our warmest welcome at an inn.
From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas
Churlish as was Mr. Chattaway's general manner, he could not avoid showing pleasure at its arrival.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
Vocabulary lists containing churlish
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 8
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