(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.
Till
Definition:
(prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
(n.) A vetch; a tare.
(n.) A drawer.
(n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
(n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
(n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
(n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
(v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
(conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
(prep.) To prepare; to get.
(v. i.) To cultivate land.
Example Sentences:
(1) As could be expected, objective response was seen in only a small number of patients followed up till 9 months.
(2) During heavy exercise at 65-75% of VO2 max, time till exhaustion correlates with the pre-exercise muscle glycogen concentration and exhaustion coincides with empty glycogen stores.
(3) Now cases cured till Dec. 1987 are 4640 (1120 MB + 3520 PB) 17 cases relapsed after MDT (15 PB + 2 MB).
(4) Up till now none of the available laser systems are optimal for application in the cardiovascular system, but still many of them have been effective clinically.
(5) They were till now used mainly to regulate contraception and menstrual flow.
(6) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
(7) 50 patients treated in the period from 1925 till 1977 with a spondylolisthesis of more than 50% have been reviewed.
(8) In our opinion in case of typical anamnesis the cerclage-operation is to be performed earlier than in the practice up till now, before opening the cervical os, and the infection of the amnion.
(9) Recurrent free curves were compared till 1050 days after the initiation of the study.
(10) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
(11) And he says the north has been pretty underserved till now.
(12) Thus, these two species are more closely related than suggested earlier; g) Till now, no Mycobacterium has been found showing nicotinamidase without "pyrazinamidase" activity (or vice versa).
(13) The new antibody specificity is a specific serological finding in patients with Bechterew's disease and is therefore suitable for use as a diagnostic, and perhaps also as a prognostic test for this type of spondylarthritis till now assumed to be seronegative.
(14) This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric Garner, and a thousand stories in between.
(15) It was then gradually elevated from the beginning of the 1st month following excision till it reached 88% of the level before excision at the 10th month.
(16) What’s more, older people are now topping up pensions by doing a few hours a week stacking shelves or operating the tills at the supermarket.
(17) Who is going to take on these duties when the current generation will have to literally work till they drop?
(18) An endemic hospital infection caused by E. coli 0111:B4 together with Pseudomonas aeruginosa was observed in a county hospital over the period October 1973 till January 1974, which could not be brought under control by routine preventive measures against cross-infections established on the wards.
(19) The colony-forming activity of embryo lung cells CBA mice was determined according to the Till and McCulloch technique (1961).
(20) I’ve lived in rooms in attics, and I worked till I was 70.