(a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
(a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Example Sentences:
(1) And maybe you'll ask how she is, rather than simply responding to her questions with churlish, one-word answers.
(2) Surely it would be churlish now for MPs not to take him at his word, and demand a clear explanation from Starbucks and the other multinationals that, at first glance at least, appear to be gaming Britain's tax system?
(3) Dan Ashworth, David Gill and I have carried out a thorough process in the last three weeks and ultimately we could not look beyond Sam as the ideal candidate.” Allardyce performed a minor miracle to save Sunderland from relegation after succeeding Dick Advocaat last October but, in a terse statement which will interpreted as churlish, the Wearside club failed to reference his contribution, let alone thank him or offer their good wishes.
(4) Magnus Thue, a government adviser, tweeted: “The clown is ousted as chairman.” He later offered an apology in another tweet, claiming it was “churlish”.
(5) Jonathan Ford, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, said some Ifab members did consider whether an outright ban would be "a little bit churlish".
(6) But right now (and despite those gathering storm-clouds) it seems churlish to argue against her brand of old-school artistic patronage.
(7) I've never celebrated any of the times it has posted record profits, so it does feel a bit churlish to berate it for not making quite as much money this time.
(8) Lewis said it would be "churlish" of Labour to resist Patten's appointment, but while accepting the peer had the "experience and credibility" to do the job, he said his party's support would "be conditional" on the peer meeting a series of tests, including clarifying his business and political interests.
(9) In a post-crash, post-expenses-scandal world, it would be churlish not to recognise that on some issues the Liberal Democrats have hit a nerve.
(10) The corner isn't much of an event, but so good has the entertainment been, it'd be churlish to moan too much.
(11) That is not churlishness or ingratitude, but a mark of the country’s real progress.
(12) His award of a Nobel prize in economics was richly deserved - even if he was churlish in accepting it (he said after winning: "I would not want a professional judgment of my scientific work to be those seven people who selected me for the award").
(13) You'd have to be pretty churlish to pick on one that has raised thousands of pounds for breast cancer care.
(14) For years we've been arguing that Sky makes all this money and it should use it to fund original content, so I think it's cheap and churlish point scoring to ignore them or want them to fail.
(15) Towards the close of our session in the holding cells it seemed churlish for there not to be a little banter with Karadzic.
(16) It seemed churlish to point out that sometimes you really do need to be careful what you wish for or that Newcastle had not proved that hot at strategy in recent years.
(17) It seems churlish to be critical when so many people, for whom Brent Cross must seem as ancient as Canterbury cathedral, will say this is the best place they have ever been.
(18) To criticise a business that has just pumped out profits of £2.5bn on sales of £44.6bn may seem churlish but UK industry data has shown Tesco's underlying growth lagging behind that of peers such as Sainsbury's and Morrisons for several years.
(19) At an ebullient Nick Clegg's side at the agreement's launch, David Cameron reproached the "churlish" media for not giving credit where it was due.
(20) Let's not be churlish when there's much to celebrate.
Swiss
Definition:
(n.sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(3) A sex difference in postanaesthetic mortality after fluroxene anaesthesia was found in Swiss Webster mice.
(4) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(5) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
(6) In Experiment 3, five daily 30-min exposures to the more novel environment minimally raised resting corticosterone levels of ICR Swiss mice.
(7) Nine-week-old Swiss male white mice were divided into groups killed after time intervals of force application of six h, and one, three, five, seven, ten, 14, 21, and 28 days.
(8) In Geneva, the Swiss chief prosecutor, Olivier Jornot, said he had launched an undisclosed number of investigations and said his office was paying very close attention to new information as it emerged.
(9) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(10) Fasting caused a decrease in both plasma and tumor extracellular fluid triglyceride concentrations in CBA, as well as in Swiss-Webster mice.
(11) Addressing the clampdown on Swiss bank accounts, which George Osborne had factored into the government's estimated income last year, Troup confirmed reports from last month that officials had collected significantly less than expected.
(12) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
(13) Swiss 3T3 cells were labelled for 36 hr with high levels of [3H]-myo-inositol and the radioactivity in nuclear inositol phospholipids was measured.
(14) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
(15) In a previous experiment a group of 15 specified pathogen free (SPF) cats were experimentally infected with a Swiss isolate of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).
(16) When twenty Swiss albino mice (male) were fed a vitamin A deficient diet for 18-24 months, Mallory bodies (MB(s] were observed.
(17) MFH was administered in drinking water continuously for life to Swiss mice and Syrian (golden) hamsters.
(18) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
(19) They added: “Mr von Opel … is a Swiss national and a Swiss resident since 1973.” This has not stopped him from financing British politics.
(20) The Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said on Sunday that she took the pressure from Britain, Germany and the United States "very seriously".