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
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
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
