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Recent Examples of churlishness
Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for churlishness
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Generations of agents, therefore, have had to walk a line between bookishness and brutishness.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Crews often found release in rowdiness, camaraderie, practical jokes, and the inevitable coping mechanisms of drink and drugs.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The crowds, the rowdiness, the getting there and back can give you pause.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The handloom process produces layered, tactile surfaces that celebrate rawness and rusticity.—
Allison Hatfield,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
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At the center of the ranch is a 5,800-square-foot lodge that combines classic Rocky Mountain rusticity with Old World European elegance.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Trump era is one of indelicacy, profanity, and real—not imagined—misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up.—
Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
5 June 2018
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Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer.—
Callum Borchers,
Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2018
Noun
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What was His message in turning over the tables, besides showing His rudeness?—
John Kenney,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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But if there truly is an epidemic of canine defecation in your area, then the solution is not to turn up the rudeness volume, but to appeal to a system or organization that addresses public health or the care of public spaces.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The comments section features a piquant blend of solemnity, mortification, tastelessness, and transphobia, which accords with Moreschi’s reception in his lifetime.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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So, after the sombrero drew hearty guffaws, my friend Jim busied himself finding monuments to chip-and-dip tastelessness.—
Lee Michael Katz,
USA Today,
20 Dec. 2025
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In addition, prosecutors say swastikas, antisemitic slogans and vulgarity were spray-painted on pillars underneath M-53 and Canal, a brick wall near a business and an electrical box at a second business.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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His vulgarity, insults and threats do not make America great.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Churlishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churlishness. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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