churlish
churlish
adjectiveDefinition of CHURLISH
having or showing crudely insensitive or impolite manners <it would be churlish for any dinner guest to express anything but gratitude for his host's generous hospitality>
Related Words coarse, ill-bred, uncultivated, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated; tasteless, vulgar; beastly, bestial; doltish, oafish, stupid; discourteous, impolite, mannerless, misleared [chiefly Scottish], rude, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly; awkward, ungainly
Near Antonyms couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated, well-bred; classy, courtly, genteel, gentlemanly, ladylike; civil, courteous, polite
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