Dictionary: churlish

churlish Adj. - flegelhaft

churlish Adj. - griesgrämig  

churlish Adj. - ungehobelt

churlish Adj. - kleinlich

churlish  - niggardly Adj. - geizig

churlish  - niggardly Adj. - knauserig  auch: knausrig [ugs.]

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churlish

adjective

Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.

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churlish

, but today it describes a boorish person, or their rude and insensitive behavior.

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churlish

​rude or very unpleasant

It would be churlish to refuse such a generous offer.

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churl·ish

1. Having a bad disposition; surly: "as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear" (Shakespeare).

2. Archaic Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.

3. Archaic Difficult to work with; intractable. Used as of soil.

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churlish

rude, unfriendly, and unpleasant:

They invited me to dinner and I thought it would be churlish to refuse.

1. Ich weiß nicht, inwieweit curlish and niggardly zusammenpassen, aber die obigen Quellen sprechen nicht für eine Definition in Richtung kleinlich/geizig/knauserig.
2. AHD stuft eine Definition von churlish - boorish als Archaic ein. Die anderen Quellen sehen dies nicht so. Was meinen die NES dazu?