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churl

[churl] / tʃɜrl /
NOUN
a rude and ill-bred person
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NOUN
person overly concerned with saving money
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But I don’t want to be too much of a churl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

And you’d have to be a churl not to like it.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2019

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

He was no churl; but he was taken unfairly--as it seemed to him.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman




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