churl
Example Sentences
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But I don’t want to be too much of a churl.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024
“Hearken, churl; mind thy comportment, else thou shalt endure a most grievous batie-bummil!”
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022
But with the superb singing on display, I am beginning to feel like a churl for citing any flaws.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2015
Actually, I'm not a churl and think he is rather a good thing but he is increasingly sounding like Samwise Gamgee on helium, in making Alan Sugar laugh at himself and the mad contestants human.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2011
However, there was no mistaking his cordiality, and I should have been an oaf and a churl not to have met him fairly by the hand he offered.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 5
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