churlish

churlish
    adj 1: rude and boorish
    2: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"-
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Churlish \Churl"ish\, a.
   1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;
      illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." --Ld. Burleigh.
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            Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. --Cowper.
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   2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily
      wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable
      nature of some minerals. --Boyle.
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89 Moby Thesaurus words for "churlish":
      abrupt, aggressive, bearish, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt,
      boorish, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, carlish, cavalier,
      cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, coarse, countrified, country-born,
      country-bred, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crude, crusty,
      curt, cussed, disagreeable, discourteous, dour, excitable,
      farmerish, feisty, fractious, from the sticks, gruff, harsh,
      hayseed, hick, hicky, hobnailed, hooliganish, huffish, huffy,
      inurbane, irascible, irritable, loobyish, loutish, lowbred,
      lubberly, lumpen, lumpish, mean, naive, ornery, perverse, raffish,
      rough, roughneck, rowdy, rowdyish, rube, ruffianly, severe, sharp,
      short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly,
      testy, truculent, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated,
      uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unschooled, up-country, waspish,
      yokel, yokelish