Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of churls
- as far as he was concerned, anyone from outside the city was a backwater churl
bumpkins, chawbacons, clodhoppers, cornballs, countrymen, hayseed (or hayseeds), hicks, hillbillies, provincials, rubes, rustics, yokels
boors, clods, clowns, gawks, louts, oafs
greenhorns, tenderfeet (also tenderfoots)
- don't bother asking for donations at that house—the churl who lives there believes that charity begins and ends at home
- a churl who gets thrown out of parties with remarkable regularity
bastards, beasts, bleeders [British], blighters [chiefly British], boors, bounders, buggers, buzzards, cads, chuffs, clowns, creeps, cretins, cruds [slang], crumbs [slang], curs, dirtbags [slang], dogs, finks, heels, hounds, jerks, jokers, louses, louts, pills, rats, rat finks, reptiles, rotters, schmucks [slang], scums, scumbags [slang], scuzzballs [slang], skunks (also skunk), sleazes, sleazebags [slang], sleazeballs [slang], slimes, slimeballs [slang], slobs, snakes, so-and-sos (or so-and-so's), sods [chiefly British], stinkards, stinkers, swine, toads, varmints, vermin
barbarians, brutes, cavemen, Neanderthals, savages
lowlifes (also lowlives), miscreants, rascals, rogues, roughnecks, scabs, scamps, scoundrels, villains, wretches
boobies, doofuses (also dufuses) [slang], fools, jackasses, nincompoops, ninnies, nits [chiefly British], nitwits, nuts, schmoes [slang]
airheads, birdbrains, blockheads, dinks [slang], dolts, dopes, dorks [slang], goons, half-wits, idiots, imbeciles, morons, turkeys
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