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
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
ESPN’s Baxter Holmes tweeted out the most Pop-y section of the transcript, and the staccato churlishness reads like dialogue from a Harold Pinter play.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 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 then some memory would rise, unbidden, and there would be stony silences or spells of churlishness.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
