churlish

In a series of five-star reviews, The Independent called the show "the spectacle of a lifetime" and The Guardian said it would be "churlish" not to be swept up by a set full of "cartoonish good fun".

It seems churlish to question their first-day 416, yet there is no doubt the hosts wasted an even bigger total thanks to some sloppy dismissals.

As I previously wrote, while it might be churlish to suggest that the gift was devoid of genuine altruistic impulses, it would be naive to assume that altruism is the whole story.

“It seems churlish to complain about where we are right now,” said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy arm of the Brookings Institution.

But that was nonsense, and felt churlish.