CHURLISH in a Sentence
Learn CHURLISH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
12 example sentences for CHURLISH, such as:
1. This house was churlish to the nineteenth century.
2. The room was so lovely it seemed churlish to argue.
3. He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.
4. Annoyed at the churlish rebuff, I turned my back and walked home.
5. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly on the part of Jean Valjean.
2. The room was so lovely it seemed churlish to argue.
3. He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.
4. Annoyed at the churlish rebuff, I turned my back and walked home.
5. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly on the part of Jean Valjean.
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Meanings and Examples of CHURLISH
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churlish
a. difficult to work with; rude; unyielding; unmanageable
Classic Sentence:
1 Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
2 Annoyed at the churlish rebuff, I turned my back and walked home.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
Context Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
3 This surgeon's son was not only not overawed, he even gave abrupt and indifferent answers, and in the tone of his voice there was something churlish, almost insolent.
4 And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly heiress in the same way.
5 This house was churlish to the nineteenth century.
6 Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.
7 This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly on the part of Jean Valjean.
Example Sentence:
1 The room was so lovely it seemed churlish to argue.
2 He would not offer a churlish roof to his visitors.
3 I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
4 Dismayed by his churlish behaviors at the party, the girls vowed never to invite him again.
5 China has won, gaining the support of American allies not just in Asia but in Europe, and leaving America looking churlish and ineffectual.