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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 you’d be an awful churl to insist upon making the argument.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2017

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

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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