How to Use churlish in a Sentence

churlish

adjective

• It would be churlish not to congratulate him.
• Wham, the churlish AI wipes us all out, not even waiting for the meteor to do so.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Is there any way to ask about it without seeming churlish and rude?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• Not long ago, such talk would have been derided as churlish.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
• Mom is a lovely person who seemed not to see her child was often churlish and badly behaved.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• Apparently, many voters used that clause to leave the churlish Bonds off their ballots.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2022
• That’s a standard liberal hope, of course, against the grain of our incurably churlish country.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Brad Keselowski is sick of the way Kyle Busch’s churlish behavior is often linked as an excuse for his desire to win.
  — Dan Gelston, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
• And the final Allegro vivace was gripping, Beethoven at his most charming and churlish.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• That churlish attitude could not last, given the larger context in which the holiday was born.
  — Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker, 19 June 2020
• Mooney simply wasn't aware of his own churlish, passive aggressive tone.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2011
• Even small-press attention was met at times with churlish defiance.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
• That said, your sin was venial at best, whereas your aunt’s behavior is churlish and wildly out of proportion.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 16 May 2017
• McCarthy is just a churlish, childish bottom feeder who will lead the GOP to more extremism and thuggish theater.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• Under the influence of testosterone and the spell of transgression, ROGD daughters grow churlish and aggressive.
  — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• In the aftermath of the election, Jimmy Carter, who had monitored it, at times seemed churlish about Chamorro’s victory.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• These boys are churlish and brusque, with chapped rosy cheeks Duveneck has masterfully captured.
  — Leyla Shokoohe, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
• The winter that never was remains an unsettling thing, but not to revel in its positive effects would be churlish.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020
• Matilda is treated with nothing but contempt by her churlish parents.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• The joke, or one of the jokes, is that Zink does publish material like that—her next novel, Nicotine, was about a utopian (smokers’) commune battling its churlish landlords.
  — Andrew Martin, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2020
• How are folks supposed to account for the entire audience to be caught up without hearing from the churlish that an innocent post ruined their enjoyment?
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2019
• For now, only the most churlish isolationists can fail to be moved by the success of Ukraine’s daily effort to resist, and even defeat, everything the Putin military machine has thrown at it.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• As ambitious Jim heads east, Ántonia is a disgraced, unmarried mother drudging on the farm for a churlish brother.
  — Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
• Logic may seem like a churlish thing to wish for in a movie that deliberately operates in such a heightened state of unreality.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• Well, with the possible exception of someone who makes a churlish remark about the conspicuous age difference between Ana and Ray.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Some were these churlish rock records, others hootenanny folk records, bluegrass/country standards with Mac Wiseman.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
• But there’s a fine line between forceful leadership and churlish self-absorption, and foot stomping is less effective than shredding an opponent with a rapier wit.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
• The contest held true to its churlish form, with the candidates and their supporters slinging accusations, hurling invective and painting a dire portrait should the other side prevail.
  — Mark Z. Barabak Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• The latter is what happened after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which, beset from all sides by hysterical criticism on the right and churlish disappointment on the left, registered depressed polling for years.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Sep. 2017
• The witty one-liner illustrates the frustration many of us feel about the president’s churlish Twittery, the denigration of the press, the disparagement of expertise, and the ubiquity of phony facts on the internet.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024