currish
Example Sentences
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Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
True to his low, currish nature, he crept upon us unawares.
From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis
O people currish, churlish as their seas— He rejoices he leaves them, never to return till “rocks shall turn to rivers.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
He dreads his departure with a trembling, currish fear; and I should hardly be doing good to him were I to force him to depart in a frame of mind so poor and piteous.
From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
"Of a dog; currish," is the definition which we get from Johnson,—quite correctly, and in accordance with its etymology.
From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
