churlishness

Example Sentences

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This time, of course, he spoke at length with the news media, which bore the cumulative scar tissue of years of Connors’s churlishness.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018

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

But Fagen seems oblivious to the parallels between Shepherd’s late-career churlishness and his own.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2013

This is a show populated by one of the biggest casts of sweethearts ever seen on TV, and if the people around them are cynical — and hilarious — jerks, the churlishness doesn’t quite rub off.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2012

Even that nebulous unease when she was around Paula, part churlishness and part insecurity, had melted away.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie