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Example sentences for "churlishness"

Lexicographically close words:
churinga; churl; churles; churlish; churlishly; churls; churn; churned; churning; churns
  1. And the clown for his churlishness was fain to fetch his wheels, spending his time with weariness; whereas if before he had showed a little kindness he might quietly have gone about his business.

  2. Faustus did this but to prove this clown if there were any courtesy to be found in him if need were; but such churlishness is usually found among clowns.

  3. No churlishness could resist Evans's unutterable jollity or the contagion of his hearty laugh.

  4. I have never seen such churlishness and incivility as in the officials of that railroad and the state lines which connect with it, or met with such preposterous charges.

  5. I insist upon my military title--and what does this mean, now that when I count upon your churlishness you are meek as a lamb and give us a pathetic scene!

  6. Behold here, gentlemen, Peter Stadinger--celebrated for his unequaled churlishness and his moral lectures, which make one quake.

  7. Such an incident must needs win pardon for Garrick's churlishness in defending his possessions.

  8. Howbeit, for no ill that he may do, nor no churlishness that he may say, will I be against him in nought that he hath set his mind on.

  9. Messire Gawain, you say true, but of right might one let the courtesy tarry and pay back churlishness by churlishness.

  10. Sir," saith the damsel, "He that hath been wont to do churlishness doth right grudgingly withdraw himself therefrom.

  11. Hold it not churlishness and I alight not, for there where knights be may I not alight, nor ought I until such time as the Graal be achieved.


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    Other words:
    curtness; cussedness; harshness; indelicacy; irascibility; meanness; perversity; provincialism; roughness; severity; sharpness; simplicity; surliness; temper; testiness; truculence; ugliness