churlishness

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Gray Matter: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness Why do physicists have to be so churlish toward philosophy?

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2012

"Churlishness" is figured by a woman kicking over her cup-bearer.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

Churlishness bade us despatch him to the office, but humanity prevailed to invite him previously to share our luncheon. 

From Chantry House by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Churlishness in his private life, and a rancorous hatred of everything royal in his public, are the two colors with which he has smeared all the canvas.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Lodge, Henry Cabot