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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

Miserable churl, when you held me fast in your rude hand, easy was it to know that I was no larger than a sparrow or a finch, and weighed less than half an ounce.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason




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