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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Churlish \Churl"ish\, a.
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
illiberal; niggardly. ``Churlish benefits.'' --Ld.
Burleigh
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. --Cowper.
2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily
wrought; as a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable
nature of some minerals. --Boyle.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
churlish
adj 1: rude and boorish
2: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"-
Shakespeare
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