(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.
Ungracious
Definition:
(a.) Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
(a.) Having no grace; graceless; wicked.
(a.) Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored.
Example Sentences:
(1) And then, a little ungraciously but we can't help ourselves because it's so much fun, a cheer when Dimitrov double-faults.
(2) "I don't want to be ungracious, but it's frankly not enough to pop up now and say: 'We'll do something about English language teaching'.
(3) Among Main's (1957) several cogent insights about the nature of defensive and countertransferential reactions to those so-called "special" patients who ungraciously refuse to improve - patients who in today's parlance would most assuredly be diagnosed as borderline - is his hypothesis that some of us may flee some of the time into research activities to avoid the frustrations and disappointments of clinical work.
(4) A spokesman for Waterstones, Jon Howell, called the critical reaction "ungracious sniping" and said Barnes was a worthy winner.
(5) But appearing in front of the media after the match, Kyrgios spoke of his own frustrations with his game, and sought to explain that ungracious sounding comment.
(6) Perhaps there is some odd flaw in his judgment of people – he had also been rather ungracious to those who had opposed his original selection as MEP in the east Midlands, such as the Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes whom he had sacked as housing spokesman.
(7) "It would feel ungracious to be carping about it, but it's very hard to know how to respond.
(8) Wenger declined to shake hands with Hughes after his Arsenal team were beaten by City at Eastlands at the start of this month, prompting Hughes to describe him as an ungracious loser.
(9) It was perhaps ungracious of Tarantino to bellow: "I'm here to sell my movie!
(10) Whelan said David Miliband's exit from the shadow cabinet was ungracious.
(11) "It would be ungracious of me not to congratulate UKRD on its victory and I wish UKRD well," said Gumbiner.
(12) Arriving onstage to collect this second award he ungraciously asked why the show hadn't been nominated in the comedy category too.