churlishness
Example Sentences
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She puts a lot of effort into home decoration and entertaining guests as she tries to keep Joe’s churlishness at bay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
A few, talking privately, expressed their chagrin at the churlishness of Cuba’s Party apparatchiks, and worried that, after all of Obama’s effort, his overtures were being spurned.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2016
To The Boston Globe’s Peter Keough, the film “resurrects a macho churlishness and puerile wish fulfillment that is less charming now than it was back when the show went off the air.”
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2015
At this point, it’s fruitless to dwell on the petty churlishness of these two extremists.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2015
But then some memory would rise, unbidden, and there would be stony silences or spells of churlishness.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
